JESS B. Real Podcast

Bet On Black, EKW

Reading is always fun for my mental, so y'all already know every time I read a book worth sharing, I'm gonna discuss it...duhhh!!! 'Bet On Black: The Good New About Being Black in America Today' was definitely a motivation booster for ya girl! I mean, Eb kept it allll the way real, and relatable. She also educated, informed, and guided us to be the best we can. She made it clear the space they think we take up, we deserve to take up. Tap in...Let's get real!

Duration:: 33m
Broadcast on:: 23 Jun 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

(upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) Yo, yo, yo, what's going on? It's your girl, Jess B. Reel, and welcome back for another Sunday and another dope episode of Jess B. Reel Podcast. Season 11, we are here. I know I've been giving you guys regular episodes of guests because I just feel like I've come past and crossed past with so many incredible people that I just wanted to be able to kind of jump in and give you all different perspectives of different people I've been surrounding myself, especially in the creative aspect as well as just people because, you know, like I said, I was doing poetry for those months. I've come across some really dope, dope people. So I know, y'all probably just wanted to hear my voice for once. I know, you know, I'm here to just give it to y'all. But I am still gonna be doing my solo episodes, so don't you worry. I still got some, you know, life hacks, some stories to share, some informational, you know, FYI stuff to give to y'all. So that kind of brings me to my episode today, which is called "Bet on Black EKW." So "Bet on Black" on EKW, if you haven't read the book by Ebony K. Williams, Justice Ebony K. Williams, who's also of equal justice of Ebony K. Williams TV show, who happens to be a sister Greek of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, as well as one of the first, the first "Real Housewives of New York," which I spoke about probably last season with a person I do no longer have any type of ties to. With them, and how she pretty much was a pioneer in a martyr, in a way, to just show how great blackness is. And I like, I always, I think I even mentioned it before, how I loved how she showed up. Four "Real Housewives of New York" kind of breaking the barriers, breaking that glass ceiling, giving us to something a little different when it comes to what black excellence is. As aside from what we were used to seeing in "Real Housewives of Atlanta," "Real House of Potomac," no "T" no "Shay," we're not gonna come at those ladies and say they wasn't doing anything, but Ebony definitely came in with a breath of fresh air to go against the tropes of the tragedy of the black women, how it was trials to triumph. It was more so we're gonna skip the trials. I'm gonna give you the triumph and how much this triumph is exceeding in greatness. She also now has a podcast with Dustin. So holding court with Ebony K. Williams. So when I say this, Queen is multifaceted. I'll hear doing a damn thing. This is her second book she released. I don't read the first one, but the second one definitely was something I was very much thoroughly into. I just finished it not too long ago and y'all know I am a bookworm. I love a good thing of literature. I love M.M. War, autobiography. Anything where a person can tell their story and their words for you to understand who they are better outside of what social media gives you, outside of what these little interview brief clipits and snippets give you 'cause sometimes what's to give it is not their full transparency. I'm super excited 'cause she's also a Virgo. So I'm waiting for her, you know, I'm rooting for her big time. But nonetheless, I'm also rooting for Kiki Palmer, which has nothing to do with this episode because she's releasing her second book that I've already pre-ordered. That's gonna pretty much go through her trials of just going from the end of her 20s into her 30s. And it's always good to see the evolution, which I might have to now go back now that I'm saying that and read the Ebony K. Williams, her first book, just to see what she touched on there. But Bet on Black definitely was a book I was obsessed with. Please, please, if you are avid reader, go get you a copy and get you some knowledge and a piece because even the book list Ebony shared of prior from James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, a lot of other amazing authors is what we need because as we know, critical race theory, as they called it, is now being taken out of the school systems. The whole reverse of affirmative action has now been implemented in our, you know, PWIs. So there's a lot of retraction going on in society that it is necessary for us to read and educate, especially today's youth, because we know reading is not a big thing for them, nor is it pushed because electricity, look at me. Electronics is what now as technology is being pushed for them to go towards because, of course, what they say, you're sitting in front of the stupid box. The bigger the screen, the bigger the problem. 'Cause we ever remember when we have phones back in the day, 'cause I'm looking at my no key now, my no key at 5110, the screen was small, so it was not much of a distraction. Now you look at the iPhones, now you got the whole screen, so the bigger the screen, the bigger the distraction. And that's pretty much what it is. And what I loved about this book is the fact that Ebony talked about where she came from. Not that she talked about it, but I felt like she brought the reader into allow us to see firsthand how this little girl from Charlotte, North Carolina was underprivileged in a section eight housing facility, which is known as the AKA the projects, the jets, and literally not say judged it up to give it this false reality of what it is as the projects, but kinda let us know that where she lived in Charlotte, literally up the block is where you had the privilege suburban. Down the block was more of the hardcore, more grittier projects, but she was still on section eight living, so she kinda was in the middle. And I think that paints a big picture to show how much redlining has happened, especially now living in Charlotte now present day, which is her hometown, her home city, seeing how much the west side is now still pushed on that narrative of being low, the east side of low, and then it's like university where I'm at and the north side is more of the upbringing where they wanna build it up, and you know what I'm saying? But now they're even doing the regentifications to become in the thing where they're putting it next to halfway houses. They're putting it in the spaces that will push out our people or those of minority because they don't want us here. And even though Ebony speaks about her being at section eight housing, she speaks highly of her mother and her grandmother, Ms. Gloria, of how her mother, Ms. Gloria and her grandmother who raised her and were very strong pillars who she is as a woman. And I can attest to that because me as well, growing up in a household, a very strong willed, independent, vibrant black women, help push me to propel myself to step outside of the scope of what society would box me in, where I would use, not use my education as my advantage or know that I was a bit different and I had the ability to go a little further using my education because it was not cool to be smart and black, but it is cool because thanks, then God again for shows like a different world and live in single who show me that creativity and entrepreneurship are possible with the Khadija James or Sinclair or a Max or a regime or looking at a Kim or Freddie and a Khadim Hardison, which is a duane, it allowed you to see the different types of black people. My brother and me, seeing Amanda Seals having her as the boisterous black girl who was very well aware of herself and confident. And you also had, you know, Island Sterling who played the sister who was kind of more of a meek mild type of woman, young girl. So it was good to see the expansion. So I understand having that roots, having those roots to your tree. Be an active participant in who you are as a person where they don't let what society be overseeing cloud judgment or be in your ear too much, as much as they are to let you know you are somebody, you are important, you are vibrant. My mother to this day, I don't think there's ever been a time and I think I spoke about this before where there ever was a card she's coloring in with a brown marker that's Santa Brown. So I see my representation so I don't have to feel like if there's a baby doll test, I'm going for the white doll, you know, the black girl doll is the most mama's best doll ever. And that's what she speaks about as well in her book, which is very vital cause to this day, a lot of kids will see themselves as inferior to a white baby doll. And that's not the case because if or not anything we are more adequate or even exceed a lot of those in the realms of academia and greatness, especially in the way of innovation and creativity. Don't fucking get me started. So reading this book and seeing how her grandmother and mother, where her mother even took it a step further where she didn't want Ebony in the public school system, she sent her and shipped her over to a private school or to a different public school that was gated geared more towards, I want to say Caucasian students where she made her wear a uniform. Even though the school wasn't uniform based just because she didn't want the stereotype of her being a black girl that she wasn't able to be prestigious and show the illustrious ability in her academia. So even though she didn't have to wear a uniform, her mother made her wear a uniform, which allowed her to always be no, no matter what, as we always do as black women, you gotta go three times harder and let them know that, hey, I'm here to learn. I look presentable, present me with the same abilities or same avenues or opportunities you're giving my white counterparts 'cause I deserve it too. And I think again, that also came down to what I loved her talking about was the whole thing of bullying, 'cause again, we already know colorism goes one way. For our more darker skin sisters on the spectrum, they experience colorism. Us lighter ones, we spend probably bullying. So she was bullied because she was like, yeah, girl, a black girl who wants to be white because she was able to articulate and very much a precocious child who was able to know who she was because she had those strong pillars in her life. So it was nice, she might have been a little bit loquacious which was probably why she went into the whole realm of being in a lawyer 'cause she knew she said ever since childhood, she knew she wanted to be a lawyer, which a lot of loquacious kids go into creativity and they're very much can't debate you down 'cause we're all about facts. I know firsthand 'cause I was that kid. Still am that person, but again, I'm an introvert so it doesn't take many don't get to see that part of me being in my loquaciousness. But how, you know, just because you don't have to, and it was also kind of a double in the window of you don't have to be of your circumstances. You can be of the Section 8 projects, but doesn't mean you have to stay in that vicinity where if your mother wants to go out and about, like she said her mom worked three jobs where she sent her to a different public school and made sure she had the means to be presentable even if they have means she had to go without. Her grandmother giving her the sole roots because her grandmother's Creole from New Orleans of understanding her roots as a person, even if she was a lighter skin black. Yes, it was a privilege, but it also was a thing when you're in a space where people don't know any better. As we already know that in most situations, what someone doesn't understand they're afraid of. Let me say that again. What someone doesn't understand they're always afraid of. So black people are always something white people are afraid. I'm about to give y'all a real, a little (laughs) tell that real quick. What white people are scared, white people aren't scared of black people because we're black. They're scared because they don't understand our origins because they're so versatile and diverse. There's no true pinpoint as is for them where they can say, this is what a black person is. That's what a black person is. There's no monomer. As to them, there's a monomer. We're a polymer as a culture. So when you can't pinpoint one black person, even though they give the one drop rule as they did back in the day, what they don't know or understand scares the fuck out of them. So when you have a black woman who's educated, it's fucking, what do you mean? You speak so well, you speak so eloquently. You can articulate. You're gonna try to minimize and diminish that because that's the way of just saying most black people aren't educated. Most black people aren't articulate, which is far from the fucking truth, but it's the way for you to have the superiority complex as I always fucking talk about with these fucking Caucasians, white pieces of shit. Yes, I fucking said it. And it's not all of them 'cause we have co-conspirators, but the ones who are ignorant enough, like the bigotry that they wanna portray, it makes them feel like, oh, I'm better, but you're not. Because if we do recall, Ebony was the most qualified and decorated one on the fucking entire show out of all of the women who was on there for almost what? Over a decade in some change? They started school, but married into the wealth, where Ebony was building her wealth and used her education to her creativity to be able to build the wealth, which surprised them because they're like, I've never seen this before. But she also took the time to educate these white women on how great black excellence was. So having her go to this school and be in this uniform, she hated it, but now as an adult, she appreciated the efforts Ms. Gloria put into her, right? So having privilege is a luxury that shouldn't be a luxury, because I feel like a lot of times in black society and culture, we feel like having privilege is a luxury, but it shouldn't be a luxury 'cause it's a common decency that a lot of other counterparts, and I will say the Caucasian ones specifically where they use the nepotism to acquire it, have this ability to have privilege. So it shouldn't be wrong where she's like, oh, I'm going with my friends to the Alps because my friend has a boat arm on her yacht because that's their privilege. We should experience it too. She's like she said with me, I was friends a lot of white people to experience the things that I didn't. I even had some friends who were minorities who were living privileged lives where I spent snowboarding and, excuse me, snowboarding and yachting and vacationing and the Hamptons. That's stuff my mom wouldn't been able to do. I was going overseas at a young age. My mom made it happen. She made sure she raised the fun something to experience Amsterdam at 14 years old. You know what I'm saying? Where there's, when you have a mother who's diligent to make sure that you have a broader scope and understanding of how this actual life is and your adversities being a black woman, when you're more privileged and prone to see that there's bigger than the scope that you're in, it's not microscopic, it's macroscopic, your vision in which you interact with as an adult, which is I-E-Me now, I can't be around basic fucking people. So I literally wholeheartedly understood the bet on black when Ebony, when she was speaking like, some people don't understand me, this thing where it's an Amanda Seals and plenty of other black queens out there where you don't allow just to mundane mediocrity to be acceptable in your life because you weren't exposed to mediocrity. I've never been about mediocrity. We've already talked about my education and where I was in general as a child. I was never a average child. I never was one who didn't question and have, again, loquacious. Various inquisitions on why things were the way they were and if I felt they weren't right, why I can't contest it if I'm contesting it, I'm gonna do my research as to why, which allowed me to elevate my mind more. You see what I'm saying? That is a lost art today and our kids, this generation, Jen Alpha, whatever the fuck they are, are missing that point because it's poignant to know where you came from in order to know where you're going. James Baldwin said it best. And to read the book that A Bed on Black by Ebony K. Williams allowed me to remind myself of how important it is that I stick to my literature, that I stick to reading, that I stick to making sure I get the knowledge necessary that newspapers, Instagram, social outlets are not able to give me. Because when it makes me take time with self and have to sit in silence and ponder, and then it also makes me have to think outside the box in certain situations in how things could vary in certain perspectives. Hence why this podcast exists. Excuse me. So I feel like at this present moment, having this book, if you're one who is ethnocentric as I am, I definitely highly recommend it. I feel like as a black woman, especially is the connecting because privilege, like you said, you have pretty privilege, you have light skin privilege. Excuse me, you have academia privilege. These privileges open up doors sometimes that supersede the privilege you think of just having a fat ass and big titties in a cute face. See what I'm saying? Pretty privilege is cute, but pretty don't last forever. And I know black don't crack and we age gracefully and slowly. And we, you know, when we take care of ourselves, it's like, oh, you 40, but you look 25. I get it, people, I get it. But why not want more than just the vain substance of which you know that you're bigger than? I think you belong is the big thing that she pointed out in this book because when you belong, so don't let anyone tell you otherwise, is the stance she took on Real House of New York, but also the stance she takes in life. Like, they're like, oh, when she worked there, in mind you, she worked at these big media outlets, like Fox and all these outlets, but as soon as she spoke the truth, it was an issue because they wanted to silence her. But the silencing of her is to silence her as a black woman trying to make her feel like she doesn't belong. I've experienced that too as well, like I told y'all at my old job, where I would go against my control and tell her, no, this is not right. No, you're supposed to train me. You're trying to pile on all this work. And in reality, you haven't trained me properly, but this is your way of, to my demise, because if I don't get this done at a certain time frame after being on probation, you have a right to fire me. I see what you're doing and you're not about to trust me to fuck out. Because at the end of the day, this is a toxic work environment and it's not conducive to my mental health, but if you think I'm not going to come at you, full fucking throttle and come on your hand, bitch, you got me fucked up. Because if you're wrong, you're wrong, but I'm not one of them meek my old blacks that you respect them. Yes, ma'am, or no, ma'am, you're right. No, bitch, suck my dick. I'm going to let you know you're out of pocket, you're out of fucking pocket. I'm going to say it professionally and politically correct, because why couldn't make the job even more reason than angst? But I'm going to let you know, you got me fucked up. So it's like, when we're in spaces now, black men, black women, don't ever make anybody feel like you don't fucking belong. You belong and the reason why they're going to make you feel like you don't belong, because you have more qualities of probably innovation and creativity that they can't make their max move without seeing you because you're the fucking blueprint. And when you have a blueprint, a lot of people can copy what you do doesn't mean that it's meant for you and they can move how you're moving. 'Cause in reality, the situation is, we are what makes this country great, period. We are the innovators, we are the creators, we are the influencers, we are the ones, the reason why they want to have cultural appropriation. I seen fucking, what was it? The other day, I seen that one of the, one of the somebody I followed posted at, there's selling Chinese slippers for $65 on ASOS. They traded those from the hairstyle for $2 and they're bringing them shit to the fuck back as if that wasn't a $2,000 phenomenon. Like, again, cultural appropriation, beaded mess shoe. Girl, suck my dick. That is, those is the check-plant thoughts. Those are the fucking Chinese slippers from $2 on the corner store at the boat day. Used to get in different fucking colors along with the belt, the $2 belts, right off of a fucking Ford and Rolls. Stop playing in my face. You see what I'm saying, like, so when somebody makes you feel like, "You belong, tell them otherwise." Like, "I fell in my old drive, I didn't belong." But now, going through this transition, I know my worth and I know I belong. And they ain't nobody gonna ever tell me, "I don't fucking belong in spaces I belong in," because you're mad 'cause I'm gonna take up space and that means I'm gonna overshadow you and that's not my fucking problem. Find a fucking solution 'cause that ain't got shit to do with me. That's between you and you and you're not gonna project your insecurities onto me, for me to feel otherwise about my fucking bomb ass self. And if that was anything I learned from this book, it's to fucking hold your own and stand in your fucking truth, ten toes, unwavering. You hear me unfucking wavering. Don't let anybody piss on you and tell you it's fucking rain and then try to act like, "Oh, there's a reason why the rainbow was created." No, bitch, your storms, the rain that came down from your storms, the clouds over your head, your struggles is what created that rainbow at the end of the storm. You're the fucking luck of the Irish at the end of the pot of gold of that fucking rainbow and don't let anybody else tell you fucking otherwise. You fucking hear me? Sometimes the way the world is now, look at Duke revoking scholarships. Like you have to look at how there is a reverse on affirmative action, because we are so great. Again, this goes back to not making this feel like we belong. They wanna take away the ability to think that they're stopping our educational purposes and who we are to further ourselves. But baby, that's why we have HBCU's, okay? HBCU alumna here, proud, class of 2012, the Delaware State University of Dover, Delaware. Hornets, what a time to be a Hornet, okay? Because if you ever realized, and I was just saying this with my girlfriend the other day, that if you ever see any HBCU, a lot of these HBCU's are literally in the middle of West Bubble Fuck. Hampton, Del State, fucking Norfolk, Virginia State, all in the middle of West Bubble Fuck. Why? Because they're in spaces where this don't place they could build because nothing else but surrounded probably was nothing but fucking confederates. And keep in mind, Delaware wasn't fully free until 1902. So they're building a fucking campus, 1901. They're building a campus or a college for black students, 10 years prior to being fully, the full abolishment of slavery for them to have fully free slaves. Are you understand where I'm coming from? So they're gonna be in the middle of West Bubble Fuck where there's nothing but Hicks around, because that's where they built. So they took Lockerman Hall and now is what is in university. But that's the thing, these HBCU's historical black colleges and universities were made for us by us, fool, boo, my nigga, fool, boo. But we prefer to go to PWIs, and I ain't knockin' nobody who goes to a PWIs, but when you have shit that thinks that Duke is doing, revoked scholarships for black students, and they have the right to take your way of affirmative action, why would you want to go? Yes, HBCU sometimes do get underfunded. Yes, there are other ones outside of Howard in the predominant purview. Jackson State, all the rest of the big ones. There are smaller ones. North Carolina literally is the mecca of HBCU's. I don't give a fuck if you go to Howard. Good for you, congratulations. But the real start of HBCU's and the real home of HBCU's, there's about 21 HBCU's in North Carolina the fuck alone. So you're not gonna sit here and make it seem like black excellence isn't a thing when it comes to academia because baby, we're all over. And the same education you get in this Harvard is gonna be the same education I get at fucking Del State and we'll be in the same fucking rooms. The only reason I'm probably gonna get underpaid is because I am black. But best believe the education you got, I probably got more of because I got more culture in my shit, you feel me? So we have to be mindful of what's going on and be aware, wake up people, wake up ghetto children. Hello, I told you I won't time ago. The reason why I picked ghetto children by police because they sleep on us, they don't know what example you might be for that next little girl and that little boy, live your fucking dreams and do it limitless. You are needed, you are seen, you are heard and you are felt. You are important to our future. You are important to our today. Use your abilities and creativity to the best of your ability and constantly hone in on your craft and increase it by any means necessary. You aren't your atmosphere. She made that clear, you aren't your atmosphere. Look at her, she went on a scholarship to University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, got her graduated her policy category, went to Loyola, got her freaking past the bar, went to Loyola for law school, literally, living in New York, New York is not a fucking place to just, especially if I'm a country girl, living in New York, girl, that was a culture shock. 'Cause this is a culture shock for me coming from New York to Charlotte. So I know Charlotte's in New York because she has so much ambiguity in her friend groups, in her networking, that's how she's surviving in New York, which is why I will always commend her being a badass, buying a brownstone in fucking Harlem. You do that shit, Ebony. Buying her home in Harlem was purposeful. Always be purposeful in whatever you do. Make sure whatever you're doing, you're impacting a change that you want to see. Harlem's trying to get gentrified. Ebony buying or buying her home in Harlem was strategic. And I commend her for that shit. Make Harlem Black again, make Brooklyn Black again. Keep our people and our culture to us. Let's keep our shit. 'Cause it's fucking necessary. But read a book, read a book, read a motherfucking book. Bruh, I want us to read more. 'Cause y'all know that was little John's. Read a book, read a book, read a motherfucking book. Black is everything, okay? Always bet on Black. Why wouldn't we say the casinos? Always bet on Black. But when we don't really bet on Black, as will we do our real society in our real world, we don't bet on Black. And I never understood why. Well, bet on Black to win at the tables. But we won't bet on Black to win at the tables of life in real society, known as, normally nine times out of 10, Black always wins. 'Cause it does. It might not feel like it, but it does. Just look at, look at, look at what's around you. Look at what's going on. Come on now. Be fucking for real. They want to ban TikTok because it's an informative outlet where people like us are informing others because that's the only real source of where we really make our focal point to let them know what the fuck is going on. They don't want to say free Palestine, by the way, free Palestine, and letting us know what the fuck is going on in Russia. They don't want us to know that. Because it's better for us to be brainwashed by the propaganda and the bullshit for us to get distracted. Pay the fuck attention. Always bet on Black. Bet on yourself, bet on your people, bet on your community. Y'all know I'm an avid person about betting on Black because how many people that I have had on this podcast that are Black creators, entrepreneurs, artists? In general, it's important to bet on my own community before I bet on anybody else. Because I know, even if you don't have that kinfolk ability or energy, that in reality, I'm being the change I want to see by giving the platform or using my platform for my people to be seen, heard, and fucking felt. And that's what that matters to me. I don't care if this podcast ever gets picked up by a major network. But what I do is know is I'm being true to myself, my moral ethic, and my ability to use my voice in the right way and be powerful while I do it. But reading is what's always been how I've done it. Sometimes my vocabulary, pss, came from reading. My extensive vocabulary came from reading. Also came from SATs, but reading, challenging myself. We love to have stuff given, but we want stuff so quick, but we never want to challenge ourselves. Challenge yourself. Challenge yourself by having a vocab word a day. I think I've seen a sister on Instagram who has a vocab word a day where she makes a rhyme out of it. My nigga, that's genius. What? Dope as fuck. Amidst the sales has a word of the day on her radio show. That's dope as fuck. There's alternative ways, but also reading is always fun for the mental. It's fundamental, it's a brain exercise. It keeps you in your toes. It makes you focused because we can get so distracted nowadays that with the blink of an eye, we're on one topic and it's the next. I don't feel like it's ADHD at this point as much as it's a proposed purposeful distraction on purpose to us not focus and holding on what's important. Reading a book pushes you into silence and solitude and makes you have to tune out the outside noise. So read a book, read a book, read a motherfucking book, and every K Williams had a whole list. I'm not gonna give a C.I. because I want you to go purchase this book and keep the black commerce in black pocket. So I want you to go buy the book and read it for yourself. Like I said before, take up all the space and more. Take up all the fucking space and more because we're gonna oversaturate. By the end of the day, I want you to know I said it before 2050. We are gonna be the majority. 2050, look at how this year is going but we're already in what, May? Yeah, yeah. The year just started. We're almost halfway through this bitch. 2050 will be here before you know it because niggas know we're so culture and enriched with greatness. They want a piece of this piece of fucking gold 'cause it's like, chef's kiss. Take up all the fucking space because each day as each day progresses we're making building our own tables and making room for our own people which is pissing them off because we're not waiting for them to give us a seat at the table, we're building our shit. We're bringing our fucking folding chairs to that shit. No questions asked, no fucking hesitations. So go read "Better on Black" because if you have an idea in your mind and it keeps fucking bugging you, you're meant to do it. Go bet on yourself, black king. Go betting yourself, black queen. If you have a story you want to share, whether it be philanthropy or doing something that you know, helping the youth. If it's bugging you, go do it black king. Go do it black queen. Make some shit, shake, sis. Make sure I'm saying shake, bro. 'Cause I'm sure somebody's watching and they might not tell you but it's inspiring somebody, okay? Nobody watches harder than motherfuckers who won. Don't like you and two who are inspired by you. So let them have a reason to fucking tune into your show. You feel what I'm saying? It's necessary, we're necessary. Black is everything. And that's all I'm gonna say. So go read "Better on Black" by Ebony K. Williams. Tap into her podcast, hold in court with Ebony K. Williams and Dustin, as well as tap, tap into equal justice with Ebony K. Williams. I promise she won't be disappointed. As I always say on air, let's keep it world and all of you remember, be real, be true, and always be unapologetically you. And there is the rose that grew from the concrete. That's a black flower, let's talk about it. The black and the berry, the sweet and the juicy. The black and the name, the deep with the roots, the white and the light, the black and the truth. We take the throne and adjust the crown 'cause that's what blacks do. We came from our ancestors and descendants that refused to die as black proof that we been lied to. So let's talk about it. We gotta learn to play the cross with them or the group of things 'cause that's black Jack. They love the haters but they hate the lovers. They want our DNA and that's a black fact. We gotta learn to play the cross with them or the group of things 'cause that's black Jack. Take our culture, they wouldn't know it's on. Let's get our black back.