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Episode 351 - The Narrative Podcast
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The Narrative Podcast promotes positive reinforcement of original people and original people culture.
The Narrative Podcast provides positive frames of reference about original people and original people culture.
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- Duration:
- 1h 50m
- Broadcast on:
- 06 Aug 2024
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- mp3
Did I hear you're shopping for a car because I've been at it for ages such a time suck, right? Not really. I bought it on Carvana. Super convenient. Oh, then comes all the financing, research, am I right? Well, you can, but I got pre-qualified for a Carvana auto loan in like two minutes. Yeah, but then all the number crunching in terms, right? Nope. I saw real numbers as I shopped, found my dream car, and got it in a couple of days. Wait, like you already have it? Yep. Hmm, go to Carvana.com to finance your car the convenient way. [Music] [Music] [Music] You are now listening to the narrative podcast. With Halsey Allen, the narrative podcast is changing the narrative one episode at a time. [Music] Hello, everybody. Welcome to another edition of the narrative podcast. The narrative podcast is the home of original people. Original people piece, original people reciprocity, and original people positivity. The narrative podcast promotes positive reinforcement of original people and original people culture. Welcome to the narrative podcast, and I am your host Halsey Allen. Welcome all my narrators. So, hey, everybody. This is a narrative podcast first. I've never done a broadcast on a Monday. So, you know, starting the week off, right? Just coming off Saturday-ish. It was, I started recording on Saturday evening, but didn't get the segment uploaded to early Sunday morning. So, it was Saturday-ish. So, I guess technically it was Sunday, so, you know, back-to-back. I tried not to do broadcast back-to-back, but anyway, I want to make my presence more pronounced during the week day. But welcome to the narrative podcast. That kind of a good show for you this evening. A lot going on in the world of sports. Our brothers and sisters out here in Paris killing it for the Olympics, for the 24 Olympics. You know, everybody's doing a great job. Especially no allows. Our sisters should carry Richardson and small bios, setting some on. You know, just breaking records every time you turn on the TV. Now, I, myself personally, don't partake in the Olympics. I don't watch it. I mean, I just, I couldn't get into it, but like, this year, it's like you can't not get excited about, you know, all the records that they're breaking and not feel some type of pride, you know. Because America, the air quotes land of opportunity. You know, our people is ripping the hardest for, you know, the United States of America. And, you know, unfortunately, we don't get a whole lot of liberties afforded to this, but we're carrying the American team on our backs right now. And sitting in the world ablaze why I'm doing it. But I'm shout out to all of them for all the records that they're breaking right now. All the medals that they're winning, all the barriers they're breaking. But anyway, welcome to the Narrative Podcast. So how people unfamiliar with me and my platform, the way I do things is I give you a brief overview of the podcast before diving into the content. Then that way, you're better familiarized with what I want to be presenting to you this evening and what to expect and future uploads and, you know, just so you're up to speed on everything. For newcomers, you know, for my regular listeners, my narrators, they already know the demonstration, but for the newbies. I'm going to walk you through with a quick overview of the podcast before diving into the content. So here we go, starting at the top tip, the name, I named my podcast, the Narrative Podcast. I don't like to post a narrative that the media we use about original people and original people culture. And so what I want to do to counter the media's intentional misrepresentation of our people and our culture is to design a platform where I'm playing up our strengths and pretty much highlighting it, highlighting and showcasing this at our best instead of at our worst, like the media does. So basically the purpose of the narrative podcast is the uplift and edify our people by a means of positive reinforcement for everything they were doing rights in the world. And then also to bring awareness to how we're being misrepresented in the media, our images and our likenesses are being distorted and propagated to push a false narrative about our people. So, you know, I'm bringing awareness and I'm also trying to, you know, encourage the listening audience to responsibly utilize their platforms to share positive content about our people and our culture. And then also, of course, to inform and entertain as well. So, having said that, I think that's the perfect segue for my tagline for my podcast, the narrative podcast, changing the narrative one episode at a time by destroying negative stereotypes about original people and original people culture. The title I destroyed 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. All right. So when the first misnomer is about my podcast, you should know, be aware of, I refer to my target listening audience as my narrators. And the reason why I refer to my target listening audience as my narrators is just really to acknowledge the times that we're living in these days we're living in the digital information age. And we are gather, collect data online as well as share information online and essentially, you know, tell or narrate our own stories. Pretty much all digital platforms has a bio section. Whatever you're on, whether it be, you know, Facebook, TikTok, you know, Instagram. X used to be formerly Twitter. Whatever medium you're on, whatever digital medium you're on, there's like a bio section where you give people that visit your page, you know, a brief introduction of yourself. You know, you're telling everybody your hobbies, your interests, your turn off as your turn offs. And then that way people get a brief snippet of who you are as an individual. And, you know, and then from there, they make the conscious choice on how to engage you and what to expect when they view your content on your page. And then usually when people are making out their bio section, they try to, you know, give the best representation of themselves. And then they upload content to kind of, you know, enhance their bio section of making themselves the best possible version of themselves or whatever, you know, imagery they're trying to represent on their page. You know, they want to showcase and highlight and live in their best life. You know, if it's an intellectual page, they're uploading all type of intellectual content to tell you what type of books they like to read. You know, going to like intellectual circles, the type of conversations you'll most likely hear from them. And, you know, the types of books they like to read and all that sort of thing. If it's sports, you know, they're uploading their favorite teams, you know, maybe even telling you they used to play, you know, team sports in their early academic days in school. Or if, you know, the persons in the DIY projects, you know, they're showcasing and highlighting their DIY skills, do what yourself skills, you know, after a hobbyist, building things, you know, collecting things, whatever. Whatever, whatever, whatever the concept is, people try to these days put out the best representation of themselves. Some people, you know, overdo it a little bit. The hip-hop generation causes capting. They try to make their life seem more luxurious and glamorous than what it really is. But point being, they put out the best representation of themselves. They tell or narrate their own stories. And then that's why I refer to my target listening audience as my narrators, because I believe as a people, we should be telling or narrating our own stories. We should be giving the world the best possible representation of us as a people as possible, because the media puts out this false narrative about our people and our culture. And it's not just the media, you know, how we're perceived negatively. It's in movies, it's in television shows, it's in advertisements, it's in... Did I already say music? Well, I'll say music again, because music has a dynamic impact, you know, the sounds and frequencies you listen to go right to your cerebral cortex. So it's very impactful and very influential, and if you're hearing negative sounds, you know, you're going to react to and respond to the negative sound in a negative way. There's been several artists, you know, to openly speak about the 808 frequency and what that does, and that's the type of frequency they use in hip-hop. And the rhymes that usually is rhymed over top of the 808 beat is negative, and it's intentionally done, the record label knows what they're doing. But yeah, all sorts of other mediums where we're portrayed in a negative light. So, you know, movies, off, you know, forms of entertainment, you know, they portray us like it's violence, overly boisterous, overly loud, lazy, rude, degenerate in nature. You know, just, you know, over the top, the way they portray us, they want to criminalize men, they want to show us, you know, not being present in the home as fathers. You know, criminalistic by nature and always engaging in some type of criminal activity, like, you know, selling drugs or, you know, indulging in drugs, consuming drugs, alcohol, you know, having no respect for ourselves and no respect for our women. And then also with the women, they want to make them angry or, you know, want to make them look like hordes. They're either angry or they're whorish in nature, you know, are overly, you know, got a bad attitude, angry all the time. You know, that's what they want to portray for our women. So, you know, that's why it's important to control the narrative or tell or narrate our own stories because if history hasn't taught us anything, it's taught us this. If you don't tell your own story, your own story will be told for you. And currently, our own stories are being told for us by the media. And it's a sad, negative story about our people and our culture. So we got to change that while we can't control, you know, how people outside of our culture perceive us as how they react to us, how they interact with us or respond to us. We can't control the types of messages that we're putting out. So we need to always be putting out the message that aligns up with our true nature. And what is our true nature? Our true nature is kings and queens, gods and goddesses of the universe. That's, you know, the type of, you know, content we need to be trying to put out, you know, us trying to be in the face of adversity, us doing for self, us being involved in our community, involved in our children's life, you know, respecting our elders, respecting ourselves, caring ourselves with the corn and dignity and pride. That's the narrative that we should always be portrayed as. But, yeah, that's why I call my target listening audience my narrators, because that's the type of story we need to always be telling. We also need to be making ourselves the stars of our own platforms, you know, people doing positive things in the community. It doesn't have to be, you know, about celebrity or something that's going on in the media, you know, put positive stories out about yourself, you know, your accomplishments in life. You know, whether it's excelling at the job, if you're working a nine to five job, any type of advocacy or activism you're involved in, or just, you know, being that good friend, being that good family member, being that good mentor, or just being a good listener, you know. Whatever your strength is, that's what you need to be playing up online. And, of course, in real life, of course, too, but, you know, that's just how people engage you these days is based on the type of content that you're posting online. Next thing you should know about the Near the Podcast is this is a positive, safe space for original people. I'm just here to uplift and edify my people and encourage my people to use their platforms to uplift and edify and, you know, progress our culture with positive content. So I don't engage in any gossip and slander and name-calling and, you know, none of that, anything negative, I refrain from it and try to encourage my listening audience to refrain from it as well, because I believe gossip and slander is what's hindering and destroying our community. So I don't want to be a part of that in any way. And I encourage, you know, the listening audience not to be a part of that in any way as well. So, you know, this is, you know, a positive thing I'm doing here. This is a positive space for original people. I get to the original part a little bit later. I refer to our people as original people. But, um, yeah. So, essentially, this is just all positive vibes here. I don't do any name-calling, finger-pointing, blaming, you know, slandering of any kind. When it comes to our people and our culture, I'm only putting out positive frames of reference. More over, you know, if I ever do, I do, however, speak about current events. I do commentary on whatever is trending in the media, whether it be something globally, something nationally or something happening just specifically within our community. I speak about that. And it's usually, unfortunately, like, if I ever bring up a person, a famous person's name, within our community, like a celebrity, it's not the clout chase. It's not the, like, try to hop on the algorithm train. It's just basically kind of to illustrate a point. And how are the points that I try to frame up and, um, really straight on my podcast is like, yes, we have negative things going on within our community. We have our own in-house issues, like every other culture does. You know, things we need to work on as a people. But, at the core of it, like, when anything negative is happening in our community, it's almost a 90% chance you can trace it back to systemic programming and conditioning. We've been systemically programmed and conditioned to behave in, you know, negative in a negative way. We've been programming conditioned to respond to each other in a negative way, to view ourselves in a negative way. We're all these negative frames of reference that keep on getting put out about us. So you can't unsee it, you can't unhear it. I'm sure you can, if you're a positive person, you can always keep a positive mindset and choose, you know, how you feel about things, that is a valid point. But also, we cannot ignore, as a people, that we've been psychologically traumatized and programmed in condition to move a certain way. And, you know, we have, you know, a whole lot of trauma, a whole lot of cultural trauma. And we have, like, PTSD and, you know, a whole lot of, like, very sensitive, emotional triggers. And a whole lot of things sets us off and triggers us because it's been implanted and embedded into our psyches by the powers this should not be. They've been experimenting on us for years. So, like, that's, like, how I really try to frame it up when anything negative is happening within our community, because you can almost, like, almost close to 100% trace it back to systemic programming and conditioning. As a matter of fact, the only time I will really call somebody out is if somebody in our community is intentionally, you know, playing up these negative stereotypes and stigma is that the media places over us for a monetary gain. Whether it's just intentionally, you know, making us all look foolish on their platforms and making the fool out of themselves and, in turn, making the fool out of ourselves as well as the people I will call said individual out. Because this is, I think, I should like to think this is a platform, a place of truth. I don't do no lying on here. So, yeah, other than that, it's a totally positive space. Good vibes, good vibes, good vibes. Next, this is a time sensitive platform. I try not to exceed one hour per broadcast. And the reason, the main reason is because I'm an audio platform. You can't see and you can't look at me in the face. So, I want you attentive and paying attention to the content that I'm delivering. Basically, I don't want to bore my listening audience to sleep. So, I try to keep a short sweep into the point that way it cuts down on me rambling and ranting and going down rabbit holes. I just want to, you know, hit all my speaking points, have really clear, concise points and have a cohesive feel to my content and, you know, not shoot over at anybody's head. And I don't want to leave anybody out of the conversation. Make sure I'm accommodating our intellect levels. And at the same time, not dumbing myself down. And also, you know, to keep it light. Because, like I said, I don't want to bore you to sleep. I don't want to make it super serious. I want to kind of sort of inform you. Well, I want to inform you, but then I kind of sort of want to entertain you as well. And so that's why I try to keep it as short as possible. I don't try to get too long winded on anything. Which brings me to my final point. I refer to our people as original people on this platform, as opposed to black or African American or Negro or, you know, whatever terminology is used to describe our people. I referred our people as original people for two main reasons. The first reason being is historically accurate. We were the first beings to inhabit this planet. We was here before every other person in the world. And we inhabited every single corner of the globe. We wasn't just all huddled in one spot. You know, it was everywhere. So, you know, it just scientifically makes sense. Of course, if we was here first, of course we was everywhere first. You know, it wasn't just in one spot. We was here first. We inhabited the seven continents on the globe. We was on all seven of them. Everywhere. We was even in the north and south pole first. Which brings me to a sub point that I want to tack on to that. The historical reason why I refer to our people as original people. Being that we were original people, it seems to be a false narrative. It keeps on getting pushed by the powers that should not be. It's that they have this little unique way of trying to make slavery the most definitive part of our existence. And as I just said, we was here before everybody. Being here before everybody, of course, we was every on every, you know, square inch of this planet. Of this plane for the people that don't believe in around her. So we was here first. So having said that just from the scientific standpoint who was here first, it naturally makes sense that we was everywhere first. We didn't get to all these places on slave boats. Especially here in the Americas. Why some of us did come over here on slave boats from Africa. You know, the majority of us who was already here. Well, we are, but the ones here got enslaved. The ones in all the Spanish-speaking nations, you know, along the course, you know, the chattel slavery routes, they were already there too. You know, they tried to just perpetuate this false narrative that they just kept loin for hundreds of years to Africa transporting slaves. You know, from Africa, they even got a little handwritten or hand-drawn illustrations that try to help them push that false narrative. You know, they want to embed that image into our psyches and have people like in chains, like, you know, got the little dog collars on them. They were, you know, in a lower deck stacked up on top of each other when ships, they had ships not like these big galleons, like the Vikings, they didn't, they wasn't sailing those. They were settling in modest little ships in early time. So they didn't even hold over a hundred people. The ships could barely even hold over a hundred people. So where do y'all get? They was taking thousands of people from Africa on a ship. On a boat part, they said they said slave boats. They wasn't, you know. But anyway, and I don't want me to get too, you know, along with it, I'm just trying to point out the insanity and the lunacy of, you know, then teaching us in school that we all, every single last one of us, descended from, you know, slavery, we had a whole entire existence before the sled to transcend land and slave trade. You know, we were rulers. It makes more sense, don't you think, that their colonizers enslaved, being indigenous, people of each land that they visited instead of going to one source to get slaves? Just food for thought. I just got to dispel that false narrative that they keep on trying to weave about, you know, chattel slavery and slavery in general. It was brutal. It was barbaric. It did happen. You know, the time span they tell lies about, like, how long it went on as far as men going, back and forth to Africa getting slaves, the route that they took. You know, that's exaggeration. It could all be proved. It could all be fact-checked. Most of the explorers, they had journals. They talked about, you know, the original people of each land and they described them as black. But, you know, there's all kinds of evidence to support that. I don't want to believe black people when they say stuff, a whole lot of white scholars have written things. We're excited. We're excited. It can be fact-checked about it. But, anyway, which brings me to my next point of why I refer to our people as original people on this platform. The second reason why I refer to our people as original people on this platform as opposed to black is to unify us as a people. Because there's so many, we're so diverse. We're so, you know, different. We hail from so many different land masses, nationalities, and speak different languages. But, you know, we got a few common things in common. A few things we got in common. We can all trace our lineage back to the original point of origin for all civilization. And then we can also, you know, have in common that we all have high concentrations of carbon, aka melanin. And we, of course, have unspoken bonds, even though we all speak different languages, pray, you know, believe in different spiritual practices, and religions, and whatever. You know, we all have like an unspoken bond. Like, we all relate to each other on an unspoken level. Like, you know, when we see something within our culture, like, yes, it's like that over here too for us. And, you know, we can all just connect. We all have an unspoken bond as well. So, you know, that's why I refer to our people as original people. On the, um, unity side of it. Just trying to unite us as a people. But I refer to us as an original, as original people, because no matter which you refer to yourself as, you know, we was here first, we're all original. And so now that you're pretty much acquainted with all the nuances of the narrative podcast, I'm going to dive right on into the content. This is a weekday edition. So essentially, I only have two sections. I have two different formats. I have a weekend format and a weekday format. And the weekday format differs because I have fewer sections during the weekdays section. Essentially, um, I have two. So, um, the reason I have two is just because I'm staying true to my mission statement for my platform, which is to provide positive frames of reference. And the positive frames of reference that I usually give you during the weekday come in the form of, uh, positive news articles. And the reason why I do that is because we're constantly being bombarded with negative news all week long. You know, they're just saying negative things. We're getting on the live or carried off to jail for engaging in some type of, um, criminal mischief. Um, or engaged in some type of lewd crude immoral act. You know, so. It's, like I said, it's intentionally done. It's a form of, it's a form of psychological warfare. When the media just keeps on feeding us a negative imagery. You know, our subconscious minds pick up on that and accept it as reality. And we normalize, you know, things that should not be normal, which is how they intended it. You know, they do it for a reason. It's intentional. So the counter that on my platform, I provide positive news articles to just show you, you know, or tell your rather system audio platform that we're trying to in the face of adversity that we're progressing as a people. Um, we're, uh, leading in, uh, academic academia. We're excelling in, you know, pretty much all areas of life. Finance, um, you know, doing things, positive things in our community and positive things that impact the world. And, you know, just basically the opposite of the way the media tries to portray us, which is like, you know, ignorant, violent, lazy, and just, you know, degenerate by nations. So that's why I share the positive news articles. And then after my news articles, I deliver commentary about, you know, whatever's happening in the world. And the reason why I do that is just basically to, you know, break down whatever's happening in the world from our perspective, because the media go out of its way to have us all looking and sounding, you know, all types of crazy. So, you know, like I said earlier, if history hasn't taught us anything as taught as this, if you don't tell your own story, your own story will be told for you. So that's the purpose of me delivering commentary on what's happening in the world is just basically to tell our story, because the media is telling our story from a work jaded perception. So now, without any further ado, I'm going to dive on into these positive news articles this week for this week, the edition of the narrative podcast for my very first article. I'm going to go ahead and line reads 27 year old black mama for makes history requires third restaurant franchise and the sisters name is a Leah Smith. Not like the singer, she spells her as a two E's A H. And the two franchises she has acquired is the peach popular factory and Ricketts world famous Chicago style restaurant. South side location for the Ricketts. I couldn't find too much information on Ricketts. So, you know, most of it's going to be for her, you know, franchise, her franchise ownership for the peach cobbler factory. So her story basically starts out at a very young age. She's originally from Lansing, Michigan. And she was has been a business owner since the age of 14. She had her own catering business. She did it from 14 all the way up to age 25. She stopped because life start life and she met somebody got married had a family and then attended. Michigan State University article did not say whether she graduated or not, but I'm pretty sure if you. I think she has a LinkedIn. So we can hit her up on LinkedIn to see everything, you know, within that time span. She opened up that she acquired ownership of the peach cobbler factory. I got to honestly say I never heard of the peach cobbler factory until. You know, I read that article, but she acquired it in 2022. And she owns two locations. One in Dalton, Georgia, stores 785. And sugar road, sweet nine B, Georgia, 3720. And the telephone number is 706-529-8575. And then also the Fayetteville, Georgia location. 100 banks crossing Fayetteville, Georgia 30214 telephone number 1-404-779-0194. And for more of her story, you can follow her at Aaliyah, Leah, at Aaliyah, Leah on IG. And her name is spelled A-L-E-E-H, Leah, L-E-E-H on IG. And then, of course, you can go to peachcobblerfactory.com to view their menus and everything they got going on with that franchise. I didn't say anywhere in the article which franchise of Ricketts that she owns. It just says that's her newest endeavor is on her own Ricketts world famous Chicago style restaurant franchise. It didn't say, you know, west side of town, which one, like store 180, I don't know, it didn't say that in the article. But anyway, that's still pretty impressive. Let's put them together for our sister, Leah Smith, and the peachcobblerfactory. [applause] All right, so like I said, keeping it short and sweet to the night, short and sweet. This one's super short and sweet. It didn't have a whole lot of information on it, but I guess it's pretty self-explanatory. Next positive news article in this week, the edition of the narrative podcast, The Headline Reads. Mother and daughter duo create wellness brands to educate and power women of color to live healthier lifestyles. I hate that phrase, women of color, like, I don't know, it just kind of irks me, I feel like original is better. But anyway, so the mother and daughters duo is Alina Nord. I believe I'm pronouncing the last name right, N-O-R-B-E, and Charlene Nord. And Charlene is the mother and Alina is the daughter. And the name of their business is Jen Stem, and you can go visit the site at www.genstem.co. So, their bio is extremely long, so I'm here, like I said, to keep my time limit I set for myself. I just really kind of try to take bulleted points, which you can go to that site and view their entire story, how they started out, why they start the company. They do a whole lot of positive things for the community. They have a lot of, you know, health and wellness tips on there, the best way to use the product. They got support groups, you know, so it's a whole lifestyle. You're not just buying product on you, you're buying a whole, you know, lifestyle or health is a wealth type deal. They got an actual whole community. So, they care about people buying their product, they want them to, you know, live their best life. It's even a little bit of financial literacy on there as well. A little bit of digital literacy, but they're basically trying to use it as a tool to, you know, help our people live a more prosperous life, a whole lot of holistic health on there. And the name of the company is Jen Stem. So essentially, the business was started because the daughter had, you know, severe health problems. And the mother, you know, noted those problems and she used pretty much holistic medicine to kind of help her daughter become better. And that's essentially how the company was born. But like I said, their complete story is listed on the website. You can read it for yourself, go to www.genstem.co. And let's give our sisters the Nord's mother and daughter duo, Aleena and Shelene Nord, a warm narrative podcast round of applause for their business, Jen Stem. [applause] All right, next article on the narrative podcast, The Headline Reads. Newly revised book teaches black students how to create generational wealth in racist America. Wow, that title grabbed me up immediately. I'm going to definitely check that out. The name of the book is called Get Rich Wild Black without being an athlete, entertainer, or drug dealer. And it's by a brother by the name, goes by the name of Chuck Starks. The book teaches is designed to help close the wealth gap by giving out financial literacy tips. Makes it very, breaks it down, very practical, gives practical real world examples of how to build generational wealth. It's available on Amazon and wherever books are sold, all major book real theaters, like you could probably find their bars and nobles and all that good junk. If you want to ask specific questions, you can contact Mr. Starks at 916-206-2483 or email them directly at skalando, S-A-C-L-A-N-D-O, at AOL.com. So, you know, like I said, super brief to the point, join me in giving this brother a one narrative podcast round of applause for his dynamic book to help create generational wealth. Get Rich Wild Black without being an athlete, entertainer, or drug dealer. All right, moving right along, last article of this evening on this week, the edition of the narrative podcast, The Headline Reads, 11 year old black entrepreneur launches exciting STEM toy line in Whole Foods Market. And the young lady's name happens to be a Miss Eva N. Simmons, who goes by the illustrious title. STEM Princess, and STEM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Her story is a very unique one because she wasn't always the super genius. She was clinically diagnosed with having a reading disorder, didn't say what the reading disorder was, but basically she, you know, got diagnosed with saying she didn't know how to read, she was illiterate or didn't read well. I am going to go off on a brief tangent. This is primarily why we need our own schools, because, you know, if they ain't going to treat you right, they definitely ain't going to teach you right. And, you know, unfortunately, when in public school systems, when we're not teaching our own, you know, what they tend to do is they play a little game and try to isolate our youth and make them think something's wrong with them. They put them in special needs, and it's a big game, really, because they give themselves raises, they get more, you know, tax write offs and get equipment for the schools, but they're just like, you know, use our children to do it. And any education, any educator, tell you, you know, that's what they do in the public school system. To are you, unfortunately, if they can, they just like, you know, it's either that or just not teaching what they really need to know in life and try to break their spirits and discouraging from wanting to excel and wanting to achieve. When I say all of them are like that, because there has been a whole lot of very successful people in the world that, you know, their mentor, they got them on the path to doing whatever it is, you know, for their claim of fame, they happen to be a white educator. You know, they had a white, you know, educator mentor, you know, that would be the exception to the rule, but for the most part, you know, they try to break our children's spirits and try to basically say something's wrong with them and nothing's wrong with them and stick that label on them and that label follows them all through life until they disprove, they got to spend the majority of their life trying to prove that they're not with the, you know, teachers said they was. Anyway, in the case of this young lady, she definitely tried from the face of adversity. She became interested in STEM and became, you know, her mission to unlock their latent potential. STEM is a very lucrative business, so once you get past the mathematics part of the engineering, you know, it's pretty a person can earn upwards of five to six figures a year doing STEM. And the STEM job or even like, you know, you can have STEM as a side hustle, STEM research, you know, STEM research researchers get paid a whole lot of money. So she came a long way. She's a North Carolina native. She invented a movement called Team Genius Squad. She has her own website. She got two websites. One is her personal website, telling you everything she got going on, the books that she's written, all of her tour dates. She does actual in person experiments for STEM, STEM, STEM, STEM, STEM experiments, you know, scientific type experiments does like live stuff like that. She also has an accessory shot, lab coats, goggles, gloves, you know, for the experiments. And then, you know, her team genius squad, that has a website teamgeniussquad.com. Also, you know, tell us more about her movement, what she's trying to do, that's more of like a nonprofit organization, kind of telling, you know, all the people she's trying to help with the message and getting children her age and interested in STEM. So go check either of those two out. Also look for her book Eva discovers her inner genius using STEM. She got coloring books as well and activity books and actual, you know, lab experiment books. So super fun, she sells STEM kits and STEM toys. I think that Ava Simmons dot com that's going to, you want to go there to see what whole food markets carry her product. So be on the lookout the next time you're at Whole Foods, pick up one of her kits at Whole Foods for your, any young person in your family. It doesn't have to be just a female because, you know, we're pleased believe it or not, guys are in the STEM too. Young men are in the STEM as well. So, you know, any young person could definitely enjoy it. You know, I had the most fun when I was young. I had a chemistry set. I did a couple projects. I think I made like, I had a little, I had all that to test tubes, the microscope and what else that I have like, all the joints. I had all that like scientific type stuff. Like, I don't know about you. I'm a Gen X or like Mr. Wizard used to be the stuff on TV. We used to have shows like that. And I guess the 90s kids, I don't have Bill Nye. But yeah, go check it out. Genius Squad or Ava Simmons dot com. Give a warm, narrative podcast, round of applause for our young sister, Ava N Simmons and Genius Squad movement for STEM. And next time you go to a Whole Foods, be looking out for her STEM kids. All right. So, got a couple things to address this evening. This is my last section. And this section is my speaking, current event section I refer to as my speaking points. I got two speaking points I want to address this evening before wrapping it up on this week, the edition of the narrative podcast. So, some breaking news, seeing as a brother by, so set, before I even go into this, I'm just going to point out a prediction that I already had. So, if you've been listening to me ever since the Sanger of Massey things started. Sonya Massey, I don't know why I want to keep on saying Sanger is I'm thinking about her sister, Sandra Bland, I guess. But ever since the Sonya Massey thing, I've been saying it and been saying it. You know, the call has went out and we're going to see a whole lot of from now to the end of all the way up to whoever gets elected. We're going to see a whole lot of violence against our people from now until, you know, whoever wins the election. And then probably a few months afterward. But, which brings me to some breaking news. So, this just happened like less than the day it goes, still kind of going viral on TikTok. My brother down in Nevada, Virginia City to be exact has been going viral on TikTok because he's been, he was being harassed by, you know, some local. What appears to be Trump supporters in that area, they all have red caps on in the video. I don't think it was MAGA caps, but you know, it was, it was given redneck vibes. It was given red, there was given redneck vibes and it was basically talking to brother, didn't escalate to violence, but it was going there. Because one of the gentlemen in the video had, you know, inadvertently said, you know, pointed, that's a hanging tree, which sent, you know, like I said, we all have, because of slavery, we have emotional triggers. So, you know, that you don't ever say that to an original person, especially when a freeman here in America, that's the last thing you ever want to say. I'm talking about a hanging tree, so, you know, in the video, the brother pretty much goes off and they're just, they're unfazed, they're unbothered. They're definitely unapologetic, they're laughing at him, essentially trying to tell him he's making the fool out of himself and it wasn't that deep. And, you know, they were just like proud of, proud of not liking him for, you know, being a brother, like, it was unapologetic about it. And he's just basically like, you know, in the video, that was like, well, yeah, I did say what you're going to do. And so, that's the mood right now. From now to the end of the election, that's the mode. We're going to see more and more of that, you know, in these coming months, building up to the election. There's going to be instances like that, with that gentleman, and then we're going to be seeing carrins, more carrins on the rise, me and nosy. You know, asserting themselves where they shouldn't be. And then, unfortunately, we're going to be having a violence from, you know, the police department. They're going to be a cost, we're going to see an influx of law enforcement unlawfully accosting original people. We're going to see law enforcement, we're going to see like we're going to get. I'd say about four to five more unalivings caught on a camera, either on the cell phone camera or the police's body can of original men and women before election. We're going to get like I will estimate like close to a dozen before election time. And the reason why they do that, because again, you know, like I said, the car don't went out for those that don't believe white. I don't call them white supremacists. I call them white delusionists because they're not, you know, supreme to anyone. These white delusionists are coming out to play. And most of them are from the Democratic Party, but they want to try to masquerade as Trump supporters. And again, I'm not telling you to vote for. I don't care. I don't give a damn about the election. I don't give a damn about the public in or Democrat. The whole voting process, that's my stance on it. If you're into voting, make them earn your vote, whatever you choose to cast your ballot as. But they're all in the same game. They don't mean our people well. You know, they're all, they're called conspirators. They all have the same goal. It doesn't matter who wins, we lose. So, you know, I'm not going to go down that rabbit hole, that political rabbit hole, like, you know, vote for who you want to vote for. But I'm just saying, you know, that's the play. Democrats are going to be trying to pin it on the Trump supporters. And then there are some cowardly Trump supporters. They stay quiet. They've been quiet for four years. But now he's running again. Now they want to get by the body. Now they want to get lit. You ain't said nothing the whole time he was out of office. And now all this said, you got courage. So the person that made it viral, user Uncle Ricky won. That's how I went viral on TikTok. But the brother's name is Dion Jackson, B-A-Y-O-N-E Jackson. And it happened in Virginia, Nevada, Virginia City, Nevada, pardon me. It's still breaking news, so it's still a whole lot to unpack. But, you know, essentially that's what happened. They pretty much approached him with a racial trope, talking about some, you know, that's the hanging tree or whatever. You know, that's not something to be taken lightly. When, you know, an older white person says that to you because, you know, they're usually probably from that era where that was a normal thing to see. As a matter of fact, that's the origins of the word picnic. You know, they used to actually, there was a time in America where they would actually pack a basket lunch and watch a lynching. And picnic is short for a picnic in where to hang. That's the origin story of how picnics came to be. They used to, like, get out of school, get off work, take off work early to see, you know, a young brother or a sister hanging from a tree. A tree in the middle of the city, like, you know, the busiest part of the city. And so, you know, history does not can and will repeat itself. Can and does repeat itself. So, that could have instantly, that definitely could have happened there. Now, I didn't see the brother, he was on the cell phone, but I don't think any of those older Caucasian men there could have took him in the fistfight. You know, they all had beer bellies and out of shape. And, you know, that was just, like, really just, like, super secure in their white privilege. And, like, yeah, I said it, what you going to do? Yeah, you're hilarious. I find it hilarious that you're angry about what I said. Yeah, I must keep saying it, you know, that's, that was, he just had this real as a matter of fact energy to him. He said it like real matter of fact. And everybody that passed by was laughing like, yeah, you have a problem because why is that offensive? So, yeah, I don't really got too much more to say about it. That's my prediction. It's going to happen several more times before the election. You know, the primary elections conclude in November. You know, whoever, like I said, whoever is the president, our people is going to lose. You got two people with, you know, nothing on the table for us. All right, so what sprains me to my next topic is a brother online catching a lot of hate by the name. He's a content creator by the name of Brandon Tatum. And so he basically did a video where he's saying the police were just, was justified. In unaliving our system. Sonya Tatum. Excuse me, sign like, you know, I'm gonna miss the Sonya. Sonya Massey, my part, my part of you, Sonya Massey. It's hard not to get emotional when you hear this, when you hear somebody speaking like that. He was a ex-law enforcement tactical unit SWAT. And he's, you know, pretty much on his platform defending or rationalizing. He wasn't defending. So this is where the hate part comes in. He was like rationalizing their actions from a former police officers standpoint. But it's a split, you know, it's kind of a split because there's a whole lot of former police officers. There's this black that's infuriated by the police officers, you know, how they handled that, how both of those, you know, police officers handled that. Said that's not protocol, that's not what they're trying to do. And then, you know, here comes this dude. Now a lot of people's calling Uncle Tom, Uncle Coon, Uncle Ruckus. He said in the third and, you know, I get the hate. I'm not too, you know, I can't see myself liking a person like that. But here's the thing, we have to take emotion out of it. And unfortunately, our people, it's real easy to tug our heartstrings and we get emotional about a lot of things and we look at things from the emotional standpoint. Instead of being more strategic. And the whole lot of things that happens to our, happens to our people within our community is that we get overly emotional, we let our emotions override us. And so, said all that to say, even though I don't like what he said, I don't like how, you know, he seemed to be like, really, not a lot about the unaliving of our sister. He's known as manurisms, you know, that make me very upset emotionally. Emotionally, I don't really care nothing for him at this point, like everybody else. But from the legal, legal, black and white was on paper and this is going to be the uphill battle, you know, what was captured on the body can and what the law says about that. Now, the pot of boiling water wasn't a weapon. The pot, pardon me, the pot wasn't a weapon. The boiling water was a weapon. And then, you know, here's the part where y'all don't like me after I say this. You know, when the police officers body footage can, when it was released, she did throw the part of boiling water at him. The open fire. Now, should he have open fire, all he had to do was move. Now, there also was a law where you, you, um, says you got to meet force with equal force. So, was the boiling water equivalent to a bullet? And that's what they got to prove in court. And that's really kind of all he's really saying. Like, yeah, but legally, that's going to be their legal defense as a police officer. You know, that counts as deadly force. We might not like it, but that is a law that counts as deadly force. And that's what they have to prove in court. Where's the police officer justify? And, like, when you, when you're watching this content, if you take the emotions out, just turn your emotions off and listen to what he's saying. He's saying, like, the way the court of law, the, you know, tried by the jury of peers, the people that don't look like us. I don't know how the hell their hour peers, but how they're going to proceed. So, yes, our sister did have mental health issues. Um, she's called, uh, was afraid of the police. You got severe mental health issues, white people are afraid of us anyway, and some people who are mentally distraught, they do. They are overly strong. Like, some people out there, they got mental health issues, they do possess, um, paranormal strength, if you will. Like, people that got, like, psychological problems, they, like, super strong. I don't believe that was the case in this case, of course, but, um, you know, there's a whole lot of people online trying to clout chase and have the opposing view. Like I said, you know, when, uh, Candice Owens said what she said, there's people in our community that's going to have an opposing view, and we can't get emotional when they come out with their opposing view. They're there for a reason, they're there to stir stir up controversy, they're there to get us distracted from the issues from pressing relevant issues, try to work us up, try to get us angry that that's what they're there for. To tug at our emotions, to get us angry, to distract us from things we need to be focusing on, and they do it for the money. They hoard themselves for the money, there's just people like that within our community, they will say anything for money, do anything for money. And the impression I get from this brother is that he's one of them, why he created that channel because he's getting all that, you know, essentially free publicity. Like everybody wants them on his show, on their show to, you know, speak about his opposing view. And he gets all kinds of clicks from it, goes viral, and you know the deal, you're going to come out with a tell-off book eventually, and from his time on the force, and he's probably going to write it from the perspective of, you know, our people being the problem. But said all that to say, we shouldn't get so emotionally wrapped up when people like him come out and voice their own opinion. Key word opinion, opinions is not a fact, that's just he's calling it how he sees it from, you know, his perspective of being a former law enforcement officer. Now, like I said, on the flip side of it, there are dozens of people in our community, there are law enforcement officers and say, no, there was completely in the wrong. And, you know, there shouldn't have went down, that's not right, no matter how you slice it. So said all that to say, we shouldn't be getting worked up about this dude in his opposing view. And like it or not, you know, she was in that moment a threat. So he told her, if you throw that F in water on me, I'm going to shoot you in the F in face, and what did she do? She threw the water on. She did, and was on the body cam, people don't want to take their emotions out of it, but she did. The water didn't hit him, obviously, and it still wasn't an excuse to shoot her multiple times in the face of kill shot and be that insensitive. With her dead body, her lifeless, unlived body on the ground, her corpse, you know, it's sad. I really feel afraid for our people in our community to do have severe mental health issues because we're seen as less than human life. We can't have mental health episodes, like police are not sensitive at all when dealing with people in our community that have severe mental health issues. There was an instance a while ago, I think, right before it was right before or right after the pandemic, it was just a white lady going through the crowd, calling people, anybody, inward, hard-are. Just walking up the random people, saying, saying the inward, hard-are, just calling them, no matter, you know, even if there wasn't, like, original. She was calling them that, and a few people was giving her the business, but, you know, when that happens, just turn the other cheek, severe mental health issues don't even, you know, ignore her. And then there was another incident, excuse me, where a lady was in Target, and she was screaming at the top of her lungs. I hate inwards, hard-are, I hate inwards, I wish they were all dead, and if I didn't, you know, if I thought I could unalive one of them without going to jail, I would. And, you know, she got tackled and she started screaming, you know, like somebody was doing something to her. "Oh, I'll stop you, I'll leave it, let me go, I'll leave it, let me go." But just, like, you know, the playing field is not level when it comes to our people and mental health issues and law enforcement. Like, we don't get to have mental health episodes, and they're the ones that's causing the mental health episodes. For instance, like the case with Eliza McLean, you know, you can look at him and tell something wasn't not right with him, and I'm not trying to be funny about the brother, but you can look at him and tell something wasn't right with him. And, you know, that's another thing that brings me to my next point. They pick on people, you know, within our community, they got something wrong with them, to mess with them. And people out there are not law enforcement. Like, remember the, he was, I think he was ex-military or ex-law enforcement going a little further back where he was messing with this autistic brother. He was just walking down the block, and he's pushing them, telling them, trying to ask them, like, they just moved in that neighborhood, and, you know, he started trying to bully the brother, like, you know, look at him and tell something was wrong with him, but he got all over the aggressive. You know, these cowards, they got a history of messing with people within our community with severe mental health issues. And they're the ones that cause the severe mental health issues, like, you don't even want to call the police, like, when they get behind you, you immediately have, like, start getting nervous when you're in the car and they start driving off, slow behind you. Like, you don't know what's fitting to happen. You don't know if it's going to be a routine stop or what. I seen the sister, um, had did a TikTok. And she broke down, like, had, like, a serious fit. She said, um, she was shaking. She, she was like, uh, the police officer actually helped her something, something she, I think, something was, uh, wrong with the car or something. She was shaking, telling the story. She just said, but I was just so scared when he got behind me. So these are the people that's supposed to serve and protect this. Not receptive to our problems, our needs, but we're supposed to trust me. So, like I said, it's going to get to a point where it's going to be us versus them. Because the problem is a whole lot of them don't deserve to be police officers. It doesn't take a real high IQ to be a police officer, first and foremost, an in-law enforcement. And a whole lot of them, they joined the, uh, force, or weanies in real life, like, all through, you know, they got psychological problems. Got bullied and chumped out in school, and now they got a little piece of authority, and they want to wield their authority, want to wield their power. You know, because they got bullied at some point in daylight. And now they're walking around with the guns, and now they're like, you know what I mean? But I don't know if really the make of it. Um, I will say the brother had a semi-valid point for how the jury is going to be, um, looking at that. You know, that's going to be their argument to, to, uh, exonerate that piece of filth from those charges. Because, um, police officers do have, you know, the right to unalive somebody and they deem it. There's severity levels of engagement, of what they deem to be, um, you know, a deadly weapon and a life and death threat. So it's at their discretion, basically. And that's the problem. That's the big problem. We're going to have proven, you know, whether, you know, he was or wasn't justified by what the law says. And we got to remember who wrote the law, who, you know, wrote all these systemic, put these systemic, you know, rules and regulations in place, like, we be kind of forgetting sometimes. It ain't, it wasn't designed for us anyway. When we do catch breakers, the very few times we do catch breaks in the law is just that a lucky break. These laws wasn't designed to accommodate us. They were designed to keep the white man in power. So, yeah, said all that to say, like, um, I guess I'm wrapping, finna wrap it up. Um, you know, the majority of the hate that he's receiving online isn't really warranty because you had a valid point about how the police officers are going or how the jury is going to view it. What they have to view when deliberating and so long story short, if there is innocent, if he is found guilty, the reason why they want to find them guilty because they don't want an uprising. They don't want to write. I think I know for a fact, if he gets found innocent, this is going to be another uprising. That's just a fact. That's just a fact. It's going to be an uprising if that guy is found innocent. It's going to be George Floyd all over again. But anyway, so wrapping up my point is just like we got to get taking emotions out of it. You know, when dealing with situations like this, we got to start. You know, we should be in this time preparing ourselves, preparing our minds, preparing our bodies, um, having a plan, waking up with purpose because, like, moving forward, you know, like I said, no matter who wins, we lose. So it is no matter how positive you want to keep your mind set, it's all out war. So we should be moving really strategically right now, getting our finances together, getting our bodies together, you know, learning all you can learn, getting you, um, you know, passive streams of income. Because, like, you know, the powder kegs about to explode, man. The powder kegs about to explode. Like, we don't got, we don't got time to be getting in our fields. We don't got time to be getting in our families. We just got to move real strategically, moving forward that, you know, that sisters, um, unaliving was very tragic. I'm very sad behind me. Um, my heart goes out to her family. But, you know, she's not going to be the last one. There's going to be a whole lot of this. Um, from now to the election time. Well, that's all I really got to say about that. Like, yeah, he shouldn't be, he should have have more. He should have, in my opinion, he should have more, uh, just the word I'm looking for. More empathy and more compassion in his voice and, you know, because he kind of seems like he's taking a little delight in it. But other than that, he did, you know, we can't, we can't write him totally off from what he said. Because it will kind of play out in the courtroom the way he said it. So, you know, it's going to be an uphill battle. It's going to be an uphill battle. And the determining factor is going to be collateral damage. So, before I bring it to a close, I just want to acknowledge her sister, Sonia Macy. When acknowledged, the Fortson brothers. Andre and Roger Fortson. And even though it wasn't the police that did this. You know, the systemic factor behind it. I'm going to acknowledge the untimely passing of Davante Mitchell. And, you know, just closing that thing out. This thing out this week, the edition of near the podcast, just by saying, you know, be aware your surroundings. When you leave this house, when you leave your house, your residency, wherever you're standing at, be aware, fully aware of your surroundings. Make sure your phone is fully charged. You got a device with an easy to use camera. Tell people where you're going. Because, you know, it's all the way up. It's up. If you don't know, it is up. It's all the way up. And they are not playing with us out here. 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And the last thing I want to plug before getting out of here is my personal poetry blog on blogger.com. The name of it is called Halsey's Poetry Corner. The link is www.MrHalsey'sBlogs.com. What that is is a collection of poems that I've spontaneously written. And that's what makes it unique and interesting. The poems featured on that blog are so intricate, so detailed, so intentional. When you read them, you would think that I spent a whole lot of time writing it. But in reality, I just spontaneously wrote them in the moment. On the spur of the moment, I didn't contemplate on the subject matter. I didn't contemplate what I was going to title each piece. It just appeared out of nowhere. That's the best way I can explain it. Another thing you can appreciate about that is for everybody. I got a dozen or so poems on there for just specifically our people, original people that relates to our issues. But on the Halse, for everybody, anybody can read one of the poems featured on Halsey's Poetry Corner and identify with them immediately, relate to them. It's relatable poetry. You know, just anything you can think of, I got a poem that can kind of walk you through the experience that will resonate with you. You'll get guaranteed to find a piece of yourself in a piece of my poetry or, you know, the entire piece. You'll be like, "Dang, that's me all day." When you read one of them, as a matter of fact, the tagline for my poetry blog is Halsey's Poetry Corner, Poetry with the Passion. Poetry for all occasions, and when you read one of my poems, you'll find out how true that is. I really do have a poem for every occasion you can think of. So the way you can support that is visit the link, which is www.MrHalsey's Blogs.com, Blogger.com, and share either the link to Halsey's Poetry Corner or a poem featured on Halsey's Poetry Corner across all platforms. And then as well as hitting that little heart shake-like button in front of Love A Guy, please comment on one of my pieces. Give me some feedback. Let me know what you like. Let me know what you don't like. Talk to me, man. Go to Halsey's Poetry Corner. Leave me a comment. Share my poems across all platforms. Well, that's it, and that's all. This episode of the Narrative Podcast is officially a rat. Join me this weekend for a full episode of the Narrative Podcast. And keep on listening to me for the rest of this week to see, you know, which other couple days that I'm going to do another broadcast of the Narrative Podcast, but, you know, this one's officially a rat. Thank you for listening. Thank you for supporting. Keep on supporting. Keep listening. Keep sharing. Stay tuned. Stay tuned. More to come. You know, we're going to change this false narrative about our people and our culture. Need all you guys to do it. We can do it. We can change the narrative. So, you know, I'm Halsey Allen and I'm changing the narrative one episode at a time on my end. And then I need you to help me change the narrative by becoming a narrator. And while I'm changing the narrative on my end one episode at a time, as a narrator, you can help me change the narrative on your end one social media post at a time. Until next time, Halsey Allen and the Narrative Podcast signing off and this light day. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ You are now listening to the Narrative Podcast with Halsey Allen. The Narrative Podcast is changing the narrative one episode at a time. ♪♪