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Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi featuring Lolo Lature and RR Moore, with special guest Tara Wilhelmi, Jr. The gang is back together laughing it up in the studio with some very serious talk about Black Women’s Wellness with a preview of the upcoming Black Women’s Wellness Day this Saturday. More information on The Foundation for Black Women’s Wellness and about Black Women’s Wellness Day on Saturday: https://www.ffbww.org/ The Saving Our Babies report from FFBWW and Dane County Health Council: https://www.ffbww.org/saving-our-babies More information about Jasmine Jones and Amir’s Angels Doulas: https://www.amirsangels.org/about Check out: - Black Ururu 9/25 at Barrymore Theatre: https://barrymorelive.com/event/black-uhuru/ - The Viceroys, Roots Renegades and Naty Nation 9/29 at Gamma Ray Bar: https://gammaray.bar/show/the-great-midwest-hemp-fest-afterparty-the-viceroys-with-roots-renegades-and-natty-nations-bob-marley-tribute/ - Soulja Boy 10/1 at Majestic: https://majesticmadison.com/event/soulja-boy/ - WORT’s Bowl-a-Rama 10/27: https://www.wortfm.org/bowl-a-rama-registration-is-live/ Catch Lolo Lature and RR Moore most Tuesdays at Food For Thought Milwaukee’s Poetry Night at Mi Casa Su Cafe in Milwaukee: https://www.instagram.com/foodforthoughtmke/ Playlist of today’s music: https://spinitron.com/WORT/pl/19559512/Tuesday-8-O-Clock-Buzz Listen in Madison at 89.9FM or online anywhere at wortfm.org. Support your community radio with a donation online at wortfm.org!

Broadcast on:: 25 Sep 2024
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This is Tara Wilhelmi, your Tuesday morning host of the 8 o'clock buzz. We love bringing you this eclectic blend of community, culture, and so much more. In return, we ask for some support through donations to the station. It's easy. Go to wortfm.org/donate. Thanks for your support, and thanks for listening in. You're listening to WRT, 89.9, Madison, listener, sponsor, community, radio. The People's Station. Man, listen. This is 2023, and we swing in chairs. I am not my ancestors, be... Good morning, Madison. Good morning. What up, what up, madtown? It's show people. It's the two tuesday school. Okay, we got a guest today. We got Tara Jr. in the spin-on. Yes, y'all. It was such a great name. We named it twice. So, who we got this morning? Of course, you got Tara, aka Tia the plug. Indeed. I'm gonna build it. Let me beat you to it this time because I always better go first. I'm here. I have four in the building. I'm here. We have no ladies first tonight. I don't know how it is. I'm gonna move today. I'm in the mood. I'm in the mood. I mean, you're in here with three ladies. You really... It's just because he ain't come through with the vibe. And that's what he didn't know. He didn't get the memo. We showed up looking so cute in our brown, and he don't know if he's proud of, he hated me. They look like that's WV up in here. They look like they've been a whole album cover. Who else we got, baby girl? We got me, myself, and I. She can't remember what the radio name was last time, so we could couple with another one before the hour. Yes, indeed. I have one before the day. Man, mad town. How we doing? Is this fall or what? It is. Some people love the fall and they're like, "Yeah, bring it on. I got boots I've been trying to wear." Other people are like, "Shut up. It's still something. Look, it is." It's my favorite time of the year. Puddies and boots and sweaters. I don't really like the weather, but I love the fashion. I don't mind fall weather. I just decided to put on my new boots, so. And no, see, I wore some yesterday. And they're cute. And they're real cute. Got a brown stone. Yeah, I look like it. You look like it's one of them shows on Fox or something. A lot of dresses. Just telling people we look good. Yeah, you look great. Thank you. Y'all look great. Y'all call each other and it was like somewhere. But we did it. That's the beauty of it. That's great. Then we walked up like, "Oh, it's the other vibe." We didn't even discuss it. She came up out the basement. I was like, "Okay, we're on the brown vibe." Exactly. Loads up out the car. Yup, you heard me? He's such a hater, y'all. Let's celebrate that we're all in studio together today. Usually, load those in the mill. If I ain't here, he ain't here, type stuff. Big T, I'm back in the building. I've been gone. Y'all been holding it down for a couple of weeks. They feel good in here. I like being here. It did. We did that poetry show that was fun. Yeah, we did a couple of things, but I'm glad to have you back. I missed you. I missed you too. Okay, but shout out to y'all for holding it down for so long. For real though. They do in general. Shout out to the crew. They do in general. Matt, we're going to talk about a couple of things today. This weekend, we've got the 16th annual Black Women's Wellness Day. We're definitely going to chop it up about that. Why this is important, why this day is needed, what's going on in Wisconsin, and nationally, globally, for Black women and families in our health. We're going to celebrate our more, been making it into the gym while we talking about health. We're going to talk about some of his physical goals and what that's been like. We got some events coming up. I want to chop it up because on our side, we back in JRC. That's our downtown detention for our young people that serves all of Dane County. We're back in there. We're getting ready to go back over to O'Keefe. And so I'm always excited when we are engaging with our young people, young adults. So we got a lot going on. And of course, John, how are you doing this morning? Oh, we didn't hear you. I got to find my headphones. Oh, we've been looking. We've been looking at co-hosts. And I'm sure John going through some of the surprise good music on for us. We got good energy this morning, though, Matt, Tom. I just had a really good idea for music, but I can't find it. Oh, that was a studious look. Okay. Well, and also we want to hear from the community, especially anybody who's getting ready to show up on Saturday for the Black Women's Well on this Day, anybody who wants to talk with us a little bit about maternal health, Black maternal health, the number here is 608-256-2001. Look, low looking around because you usually see the one they got to remember that is on the wall. They put it on a wall for me. Yeah. Absolutely. So tell us about the events coming up. A rah, rah, say from around the way we gave you those because you've got that announcer voice. We came in here the first week, and they were like, we can just give him the phone book. Go for it. Go for this one first because this is coming up. Hey, that's tomorrow. There's new black-owned spin-out in town. That's what I see. And it really is on your snoop face. I do. She really is. We should have heard it in the car. Yeah. It was a wrap day. Everybody watching the spin-out. We gotta translate it for you. All right, y'all. Beastie in production presents Grammy Award winner, an evening with Black Uhu root. That's wild. I didn't even realize that. At the Barrymore Theatre, Wednesday, September 25th, I'm going. It's real. If you're really surprised at me, how often we don't know about Black artists, hip-hop artists, culture artists in town. The other day, I just on a humbug went and searched on Ticketmaster and Madison concerts, and not my cup of tea, but the Trippy Red. Trippy Red will be at the Sylvie this week. I think it's this week. I just have a friend. And then coming up, October, I want to say Soldier Boys in town. Like, why don't we hear about this? Like, I guess I had to go to Ticketmaster and now we're talking about it. But, okay, let's be real. Let's hear. I had to drop the kids off downtown. It was a big deal. Okay. Let's be real. It's a big deal for this time. Because Madison does not advertise, like, or support Black artists. That's true. Sylvie has really been, you're absolutely right. The Sylvie, I know that the owners of the Sylvie and the owners of High Noon Saloon a couple years back had to get together, specifically with some pretty one-on-black promoters that we know. Yeah, that's at the council. We need to have them come up here and tell us what's going on. They have a conversation with them and tell them, like, "Well, there was a whole petition and a report done that went alongside some tourist report a couple years ago that showed how much we add to the revenue here and how much we're not supported." Yeah. So, I shut up like a little bit. This is a legendary. That's tomorrow, isn't that? September 25th? Yeah. Yeah, tomorrow. Okay. So, Wednesday, where's that at? The Barrymore. At the Barrymore, that's 2080 at Wood Avenue. Okay. What time and how much does it cost, does it say? 730. It doesn't have the cost on it, but it starts at 730 Wednesday, September 12th. Or maybe it does. What does that even say? Y'all, I forgot our reading glasses. We really did it. The tickets are 30 dollars in advance, 15 at the door, on sale at Mad City Music, Star Licker, B-side. They've got to be the opposite. 15 in advance and 30 at the door? No. That's weird. Why would it be 30 at the end? Oh, 35. Sorry. My reading glasses aren't on you. Right. It was only 35 at the door. Sorry, y'all. I was saying, "Whoa. They want me to play at the door." So, I think the Barrymore, the Barrymore live.com or call. Okay. You can call the Barrymore and get tickets as well. So, there's a couple of places here. Okay. So, 30 and 35 at the door. And if you're into Trippie Rider, soldier boy, go to Ticketmaster. That's where I saw those tickets and just Google concerts and Madison. Because one was at the Majestic and one was at the Sylvie. But yeah, that's something, maybe we should think about adding that to our community calendar. Yeah, for sure. And then we got the Viceroys with Roots, Renegades, and Natty Nation. Got a Bob Marley tribute. Sunday, September 29th. This is the Great Midwest Hemp Fest afterparty. And so, that I feel like has usually been at the high noon, which is that even a venue anymore? I know they shut down on people sometime last year. But shout out to Kevin for getting them booked up in there. Yeah. Yeah. Get my Ray Bar and Madison. Sunday, September 29th, one night only, 420 doors are open at five doors open at 420 to show starts at $5.30, $10 in advance in $20. That's my dad's band. Yeah. I'm like looking at this. Okay. But back to the high noon, because I know for a fact that they are actually still open as a venue, the backspace for the concerts. Yeah. But currently, from what I've been seeing is they've been promoting and mostly hosting a lot of white artists. I mean, that's how it goes in town. How do you feel about that as a young person? So, that's Tara Jr. talking. And she is 18 going on 19 and just getting out into our nightlife, to be honest, right? And just been starting to go to some shows in town and some things like that. And it's crazy because I would have said the same thing at your age. All right. About the same place. And that's just ridiculous. Well, in between there, we've had shows, right? But I don't even feel like those shows were either affordable or promoted well. Because they weren't there by sure. There was an honor. There's rarely any people. I was like, I ain't paying that much to go to a stand-up concert in Madison. Exactly. See, my thing is, is when you do go to a highly promoted show, it's predominantly white, for sure. And it's very segregated if there is other people of color. And there's just a lot of judgment and it's a negative space. If you are a person of color, which makes you not want to be there. So it's wasted money and time. Interesting. And even if it's like small artists, you can't even go up to those artists and speak to them and congratulate them. Or like, just in general, try to show them love. They'll be very disrespectful. I personally-- Ooh, the artists of the crowd. Both, actually. So it's half of the time, they'll, like, it's smaller artists and they'll go within the crowd waiting for their set. This is something me and my friend have both experienced. Yeah, those shows I've been dropping off at. Man. One more show to talk about? We aren't going to get those people in here from that concert. And we got the award. W-R-T, bowl, a ram, bowl, a ram. W-O-R-T, bowl, a ram. Sunday, October 27th, 3 to 6 dream lanes is 13 Atlas Court. So it's going to be a bucket raffle. Choose your prize. You're going to get four tickets for registering. You get two tickets for a strike and one ticket for a spare. You don't need to be a pro and you won't can win. Got large pizza and soda for every lane. Three games of red pin bowling with shoes, free WRRT, local hand towel. I want a hand towel. I'm highly terrified of the award. I want two of them, as a matter of fact. We got concert tickets, gift certificates, merchant more, details of the award. W-O-R-T-F-M.org, $30 paid, $30 per bowler. So it's a bowl, a ram, a Sunday, October 27th, 3, 6 dream lanes. Keep us on the air. Y'all, come bow. Keep us on the air. Come bow. That is, that's awesome. That does sound fun. This is, I'm going. We're going. We're going. We're going. We're going to go to that. Look at that. You know what? I'll join. You'll join. So yes, I'll for sure join. So if our listeners join our host out there, Razzia or the crew, you know what? I will join both. I will join both. You know, I got left. Everybody should go ahead and go. If you may y'all, because that's how, uh, iPhone, that's how Siri talks about him. No, I got to hear this from everybody. Come on. Everybody with the iPhone. If you want to contact Rase from around the way, just tell Siri spell it different. No, we enjoy calling you, Razzia. I don't care. Razzia. Razzia. Razzia. Razzia. Oh, it's a, it's a chorus now. It's a group of us. We all call you that we're talking to live. We'll be, hey, Siri. We'll be, I'm gonna burn man. What's your breakfast? I'm gonna burn man. What's in the breakfast club? There's gonna be some respecting here. All tree, uh, there's gonna be some respect for you. You see the laughter? Do you see the laughter? Even the ATR was working at you right now. Where, where has the disrespect came in through me? I just want to know. Oh, she bleeding. I still love you, baby. She pleases the case right now. I love you too. They're treasured. Thank you. They're treasured. No, no, no, no, because so far, so far, it's supposed to hold yourself for being a good person. Good job. You see me today is a weird job, baby. So far today, where has there been disrespect? So far today. Key words, uh, key words to, uh, we all know, we all know, just like my mama, I'd be sipping on the hate array sometime. I don't listen to the hate array. That's, that's a lie. That's a lie because I most definitely have caught you drop in the hate there. A few moments ago, especially on Rosie. Here we go. I was just, it's, uh, and she came back home. Come on. Let's see. I don't see our next two. Uh, John, you buy this up for a suit. I know they started here. Let's can't go care about you. I got a song, but it's not, it's not the one I thought of. So I have to dig that up for next week. But I did find, I did find this one from that same album from last week. So well, thank you all for tuning in. You dropped the next tape time. W.O.R.T. FM 89.9. The Tuesday eight o'clock buzz. Let's go, John. Yeah. Okay. This album is dedicated to all the teachers that told me I'm never mountain. To all the people that lived above the buildings that I was hustling in front of me. When I was trying to make some money to feed my daughter. And all the niggas in the struggle. Know what I'm saying? So good, baby, baby. It was all a dream. I used to read word up magazine, something pepa and heavy D up in the limousine, hanging pictures on my wall. Every Saturday, rap attack, Mr. Magic, Molly, Moll. It's really not funny. It's not funny. We're laughing at each other and not the situation. Speaking of women in our health, what a way to start. I know, right? Baby, baby. Okay. Let's give real though. So this Saturday is the 16th annual Black Men's Wellness Day. Shout out to Lisa and her crew over there at the Black Women's Foundation. 16, say 16 again. 16 years. She's been putting on for the city, giving us education. It's a beautiful space. Let me tell you the the sisterhood. You know, I'm a big raider of like when we go to other cities, one of the things I talk about is like the girl factor. Like, is this a girl city? Because it's important to me when women are girly girls and we're together and we show support of each other. This is a space ladies that you're going to get a lot of that. You're going to get a lot of sisterly love lots of education. I'm going to kick us off with one earth shattering statistic and I'm going to break it down a little. So Black mothers in Wisconsin here in our state face a three times greater maternal mortality mortality rate than our white peers. Okay. And simultaneously we face social economics, health care barriers that place our health and well-being at risk. That came right from our Foundation for Black Women's Wellness, the F F B W W dot org website. So go there to learn more about tomorrow Saturday and also this data. But let me just break down what that means for you. Okay. So that means that as a Black woman carrying the child, something that's natural for a lot of us, right? We stand three times the rate of losing our child in birth, dying in birth, or losing that infant in the first three years than white women in the same state. It doesn't matter how much money, how much education a Black woman comes through the door in our world-renowned hospitals, right? Our UW hospitals world-renowned. It does not matter which health care system they're in state-wide three times the risk. And let's go back because we've talked about this is that we people who know us know we don't we're not afraid of the subject. This is something that Black women used to do in a field unattended. That's not cool. It's not okay. But it's real, right? And so now you would think that in a modern day health care system, we would fare better. But because of professional bias, racism, we show up and we're three times more at risk of losing our lives and losing that of our newborn babies. That's crazy. That's terrible. And then Wisconsin leads the way nationally. So it's three times worse in our state and worse in this state than any. So whatever perceptions you have of other states and their health care and what have you, you're doing worse when you're in Wisconsin, which is part of the reason why Brenda Edo, Big Sis, my mentor, Lisa, Lisa Payton, puts this idea on for us. She needs to educate us and bring the movement. She's been a powerful force in our state. These 16 years have not been without a lot of change. When she talks about right there on the website, it talks about the different pieces that go along with that. Those are called social determinants of health. And through her work and her voice and the leadership, she's led other Black women through in this country, this county specifically, our health care system has implemented a new thing called it's a health check. Oh, give me a sec. It's a health XR the connect our X. Wow, my brain was all over the place, right? I couldn't get to it. Connect our X. And what that means is that specifically birthing birthing bodies who come into the hospital are going to be asked a list of questions that result in immediate referral into her organization, the community health workers that work both for UW health and the foundation. So shout out to Nikki Cooper, shout out to Brandon's Hatcher, previously Tish Butler. Those were our community health workers coming out of the foundation health UW health is working hand in hand with Lisa and her team to do that same work. So when you come into the hospital, you're getting asked questions you weren't being asked before to check in on those things you're going to direct for referral into our community. Right. But that's because of the strong voice and leadership foundation for Black women's wellness has put forth on this really important topic. All right. So Black women's what wellness day is an annual event funded by Lisa Payton in 2009. Founded. What I say, you said funded and the only reason I said that is because we were just we were just admiring the long list of sponsors, the long list of businesses and individuals who got behind this event. Check me when I'm wrong. That's right. But it was definitely founded by the Black Women's Wellness Day is an annual event founded by Lisa Payton in 2009. It's aimed at addressing the alarming health disparities faced by black women. It serves as a vital space for education, empowerment and healing, advocating for healthcare equity while providing resources for healthier living. Over the years, this event has empowered countless women by empowered. Yeah. When I say that, really, countless women by offering workshops, health screenings and access to experts who focus on physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. When I tell you the vibe when you walk in, the lunch, like before the first speaker hit the stage, you are it's already that sisterly vibe that we all need. It definitely is. I would say, I just started going to them about three years ago and I've been invited to a couple just personal events that they've been having. And what I like is that it canvases all aspects of black women's health. They focus on like high blood pressure, heart disease, which is killing us at a higher rate than anybody else. It's the highest numbers that we've seen. 60% of us suffer from heart disease and high blood pressure. And we're dying at these alarming rates. And one of the things that the foundation does is it keeps you informed about that. Dietitians are offered to them. I met some of them, doulas, which is something that is fairly and fairly new concept to the black community, having a black doula. Well, professionalize, for sure. And so that's something that's coming from this foundation as well. I've met so many of them. I know if you doulas, I know if you doulas, my low cousin is about to have a baby in about two more weeks and I bumped her to the restaurant. I thought she was getting, I thought she was having an interview with somebody, but she saw me and my son, so she came and gave me a hug. She's like, this is my doula. I'm like, ah, that's what's up. Jasmine, why I don't know Jasmine's in the last name, Johnny May daughter. Yeah, we all know. I've been knowing him a whole life. I don't know. And then it's not even just empowering the black women to be doulas. That's an entrepreneurial path that they're taking, right? They work in the contract through United, United, United Way and foundation through a shared grant that I think is linked to Wisconsin, the WPP, the UW's big the partnership program. Yeah, it's one of the bigger grants in town for those of you that are part of the non-pro-profit world. But yeah, big deal and I, we're sorry Jasmine because we definitely can't think of your name, but I can see your beautiful face and them shades and glasses, right? Just wrote a book. Look it up because we should shout her out. He's over there looking. Go in the file. Okay. Can we really quickly though, give a shout out to all of the black doulas in the area because Jasmine Jones, Jasmine Jones, my friend just recently had her child. Yeah, and how old was she? She was younger mom. Oh, yes, indeed. She's currently on her way to 19. Okay. So younger mom, black female had a healthy, beautiful little son. Very natural bird. And she was telling me about how the process that she went through with her doula, how it gave her so much mental and emotional strength and confidence in herself and her spirituality as a woman and as a birthing body. Yep, absolutely. So let's think about the amount of women currently going through the stress of becoming a new mother and then having this support system. Yeah, like this out of body support system. I definitely told your sister she just did a doula because baby I can't. There was real time. So I've had four and all four of mine were high risk pregnancies. And there are real times even now as an adult that I won't go to the hospital unless my mother is with me because I need someone there to advocate for me. And it's a real feeling. And it's like I know that there's a lot of our white counterparts that really don't understand that to walk into a hospital and have a fear that you might not get treated to walk out. I mean, that's a big part of that three times just different. Yeah, I had a blood clot in my lungs in New York at 19 years old. And I was in the hospital. My stepmom, thank God for her. She was there with me and shout out to Gail Dwarfman. And she, we were sitting there for almost an hour. I couldn't breathe. I lit it was literally actual pain shooting through my body every time I took a breath to the point I didn't want to anymore. And she had to get up there and snap and tell them she needs help right now. And I don't care what you're doing. You're going to fix her right now. And it ended up being that I had pulmonary embolisms in my lifelong and it was literally shutting down as I was sitting there. So like, there's a real fear as a black woman walking into a hospital that they won't treat me or be mistreat me. So yeah, there's ideas about our pain, how much we can endure, how much medicine we need. I used to work in a emergency room and the language being used from people that I thought were trusted colleagues used to blow my mind. Yeah, it's a high need. And go ahead. You look like I gave something on said. Yeah. So let's talk about where that fear originally stems from, especially in black women. Come on. Because historically speaking, black women were constantly medically tested on. And there was like so many tests and studies and experiments done on our bodies that led these medical practitioners to believe that we had a higher pain tolerance. In reality, we didn't. Because yes, we are built different than our white counterparts. But mentally, a lot of women check out of their physical pain so they can endure it for the long haul. And that is part of what is linked into that myth of black women being strong. That's part of what we talk about when we talk about resilience. That is not just the day to day getting through the struggles. It's literally the drama and the trauma in our DNA. It's like the ability to resolve, to move through. That's why the last couple of years, I'm moving in a different way around the word resilience. But the last couple of years, I rejected those terms that black woman theory, that strong black woman theory, because it comes from our pain, right? It comes from our trauma. It does not come because I was empowered and poured into. Now that's where it's going, right? But now when I look back and when I think about what made me strong, it's tied to trauma. I mean, it's the same trauma that made my kids strong. And that was key stuff we could have worked out. That strength is in itself tied to trauma. But there is a deeper spiritual strength that pours out of us. Black women and black men. The strength that we ourselves display that gives other people the concept that we are strong does indeed stem from generational trauma, because we needed to be strong to defend ourselves. Our people, our children, and our livelihood to protect ourselves. I have a poem called "The Black Woman." And one of the lines is there, and there is, our DNA was stolen, duplicated, and injected to be the savior of mankind. Yeah. With the mothers of modern day gynecology. Yeah. And there was, I can't remember her name, but I'm sure John's going to get it to me at some point. The woman who they took her cells without her permission, and her cells, where it was a black woman out of New York, and there was something so special about her cells that they could draw multiple cures for multiple diseases, multiple... In reality. Yeah, there it is. Yeah, I don't even want to take credit for that, but that's what his answer is in reality. Yeah. Yeah. Who was it, John? Of course. Okay, so really quickly. Think about the amount of women that they have already tried that on, and it wasn't publicized, and it wasn't spoken on. Yeah, she was definitely not the only woman that was in that lab that was being held. They were slave women that were sold to him for that purpose. Exactly. She's just the person that we've memorialized because it was her cells. But yeah, there was several women that suffered in that condition. There were a couple more statistics, since we're here, right? Let's go. In the United States, black women face maternal mortality rates three to four times higher than white women, with 44 deaths per 100,000 live births compared to 17.9 for white women. We just paused there. 44 deaths of children and mothers out of how many births? 100,000 compared to 17. Yeah, and from Italian, black communities also nearly double with 10.8 deaths per 100,000 births per 1000. No, per 1000. That's crazy. The reality is how many of us don't know somebody who's lost a child, whether it's during pregnancy, right? We do. The statistics around that are scary. It's equal to how many people I know who have survived sexual abuse. Sometimes when you're in your community, like I am only in my community, so I don't understand the difference between our boy Charlie race versus the white. I don't know. I don't even know. Just hearing is like, wow, I wouldn't know it if I wasn't learning this today. I just know what my community is. Yeah, I know some people that have had to go through that, but I don't understand the difference that that's alarming right there. So, shout out to shout out to Lisa Payton. Well, we're proud to be. Edo has been sitting holding a chair since the foundation of a council that they've created. The black woman, black child in Dane County, black children and family health alliance, black maternal and child health alliance is one of those long ones. All the councils have long names, but we've been sitting on that council. We've been giving our input. We've partnered with them to do the work, something that we've brought to the table because there's so obviously it's a woman's space, but something we've been bringing to the table is a focus on the father too, right? Yes. So, this last year during our women's health summit, we had a father come on and speak and he's a daddy doula, but I'm so appreciative of our black, right? But he comes again, a story of trauma. He lost his wife in child birth and that's what, right? That's what pushed him into this field in this work. He's very knowledgeable, but his story is heartbreaking because it's what you're talking about. His wife and him were advocating. He was strongly advocating and he wasn't being listened to and it ended up in her death. I mean, one of the benefits to my mothers is they're both white tea. I mean, that's a reality. Sadly, something that we understand is mixed women that have been raised in that, like the mixed family, none of these statistics, none of these things are amazing to me. They don't amaze me. They're saddening. They're upsetting. They tick me off, right? And then living them like now as a black woman, I have the knowledge, the words to go with it, but it matches up to what my experience was, right? The difference in how I've been treated and how things have went by having my mother in the room or sharing her white last name. That was real. So, those distinctions haven't been lost on me because I've grown up in that duality. But like, what where I say just shared, when you've, to me, I'm going to say, have had the benefit of being cemented in your community. We don't necessarily understand what those differences are outside of our community, right? You take somebody that's lived on the three black radius their whole life. They don't know what's happening across town. And so, it's that same thought. But I've been really proud to be part of that work, to partner with them and to bring in that perspective, to try to bring black men to the table, to bring up that part of it, because the loss isn't just felt by the mother, right? The loss is felt by everybody surrounding that child, but we don't focus on the dad, the father, the black man in this scenario in the story, but we need healthy families, right? But back to this, the data, because it's crazy. And again, shout out this Saturday, the 16th annual, it's over at the Minona Terrace, 830 till 5 p.m. All day event, there'll be vendors out there. You'll get some swag. You'll definitely get your sister girl on because the love in there is real. I won't get to talking about the Minona Terrace chicken. Yeah. I definitely want vegetarian food. I just, I am going to say, Minona Terrace, all these organizations, bro, we all support you. We spend big money. Can y'all just, I know the people in the kitchen do, I do. I didn't ate, they food in real life. Some of them, so I know they could cook more than a dried chicken. Wasn't that they giving them a strict recipe to follow? Yes. Yeah. And it's decades. Just, okay, that was my, it was my public service. Okay, really quickly, before we get back to statistics, I know, right? Real. Logically speaking, 99.0% of black males are a statistic. Don't depress us today. Here we go. I'm okay with it. They are, they're getting my lee male over here. They're not really considered as people because of how they were treated historically. They're not kissing. They historically have not been considered people. They're not currently, what do you, what do you drop historically? They haven't been considered as people, as much as women have for one. Oh, yeah. That's why their emotions get sidelined. Wait, this is only because she broke her mouth. I promise I did not pay her to come baby's thing. She's just my little baby girl that's been around. And you actually sit and have a conversation, like a deep conversation with an adult black man who has had time to process his life. He would say from around the way. I'm here listening. He will tell you heartbreaking things that he himself has had to experience and watch his family members experience. That's real. And watch what family members experience. Oh, okay. Yeah. Especially black men that's grown up, like, majority around women. It's very, I don't even think you have to be grown because you don't even have to be grown, but right. I mean, mentally grown, but when you really think about it, the stories they will tell you about the things they've gone through and the things they've had to see other people go through is just tragic. I could ask one out of three black men, if they've ever had a moment where they've regretted not being old enough to defend their mother or their sister. And they will, like, 99.1% of the time say yes. That powerlessness while also being feared is the most danger. Exactly. That's why so many of these men are so conflicted about their emotions. That's why so many of them don't speak out about their emotions because they know it can have a negative effect. Absolutely. Look, I said, at the mouth of babes, no, that's real. I mean, don't give them credit for that consideration. Think about when we bring that, or I say, think about when we bring that emotion wheel out with grown men, young boys, it's mind blowing. We've got a little tool that we use that we pulled off the internet, right? That just lists emotions. And the inner wheel is like the ones that you most recognize, anger, sadness, but it goes out to underlying feelings. And it's crazy how you get to even just that second ring and some of our, and haven't even thought about it, haven't chose that link. Yeah, you know what I mean? You're not afraid, you're anxious. Yeah, it's difficult to locate it. And then once you locate what it is, it's difficult to sit in it. I mean, that's why we come right behind that body scan. Where do you feel it? Okay, do about it. Real live tools, y'all. We doing real live work. But yeah, so if you haven't got your ticket, if you can't afford the ticket, I know my girl, Nikki Cooper has scholarships. She might even still have some of those free seats left. Get in touch, reach out to the foundation. We want you all in the space. So if the dollars is a barrier, don't let them be. Come on up there, get connected, go to foundationforblackwomenswellness.org, F F foundation for BWW. It's because I'll be F for NIMS. It is. I'll be, I'll be able to think it's too early to think. But yeah, FFBWW.org, get the information. You can just go to Google or Facebook right now and put in Black Women's Wellness Day and get the information. I hope I see you there because I'm gonna be in the spot learning and loving and smiling and probably crying a little bit too. Yeah, just to reiterate, this event does a champion change by promoting self-care, lifestyle changes, and community-led initiatives to combat these disparities. So it's ensuring Black women have the tools live healthier, fuller lives. I just wanted to say that. Man, yeah. And the reality is that even though we spend some time in here talking about Black men, an unhealthy Black woman has a trail of unhealthiness behind her. And I say that because we impact our kids, our community, our men, we impact so many things. And so like that happy wife, happy life, reverse that, right? And that's real. And it doesn't matter how you want to look at it. And even though I know we've had conversations about we got to put Black men first too, that's real. And take a look at your life, brother. I'm saying that to not just Ross, but to all the brothers out there, take a look at your life and count the women. And now when they're unhealthy, what happens in your life? When they can't be there for them. And so this is an important cause, and it's an astounding, like when you go on there and you look at those statistics, it's unbelievable, and yet believable, and just unacceptable. So shout out to the team over there, the work they're doing, and congratulations on the 16th year. Unbelievable, but still believable. That's the part. Because nobody's surprised by what we're saying, unless you're living in a vacuum, something. But really quickly, though, think about it, the amount of Black women that are genuinely scared and or terrified to have a daughter is a sounding and appalling, because of the generational trauma so deeply embedded in them, they are so scared to mess up that child, to have to prepare her for the world when they're still themselves not prepared for the world around them. And I will say, there's actionable things that we can do to improve this. And it's well known that when we pour into the lowest of us, everybody is raised up. This is a well known fact. I hear it from teachers a lot, actually. And it's actually kind of a pillar in some of the conversations that we have, is they say things like Black girls rock, and Black excellence, and Black girl magic. And these are white teachers, and they say, "But we know what they really mean." It's just performative. It's important that the people around us, the people in our community, pour into these types of events. They pour into where they know the disparities lie. And it's really actionable. Go to fffbwww.org, Foundation for Black Women's Wellness, and see the ways that you can change and impact the community around you. I know that Lisa isn't just doing this here in Wisconsin. It's really across the country, and it's important that we find other foundations that support this. Because every statistic says that we have lower lifespans than everybody else, that we have lower, well, we know lower income as far as the pay gap goes. We are essentially on the lowest man on the totem pole. Raise us up, hint, hint, wink, wink. Well, and the part about this that was astounding to me, when I first started hearing the data, right, the saving our baby's data, please go to the internet. If you have never taken a look at that report, equity by design, and Foundation for Black Women's Wellness partnered up with the Dane County Health Council, which is a council of all of our main hospitals, right, to do this report. And it's been at least four or five years now, right? It's been a minute, but go check out the data because sadly things haven't gotten better. Yeah. And it really blows your mind. But the thing about it that threw me all the way for a loop is it does not matter our education or our income level, right? In America, we have been taught that dollars, almighty dollars get us through a lot of doors, and that's true in a lot of places. But in healthcare, it does not make a difference. It doesn't. And that's both sides. Both sides of that are crazy. It's crazy that the have and have nots are so separated. And also that in the black women's case, it don't even matter. So bad bees of the world. Mm hmm. We still get in it. Right. It's still we show up at the hospital. It's still a thing. And then ageism shows up because what you said about walking in the door with your white mother, there's still a change when my kids walk in the door with me because of my age and my language, the way I'm going to show up in spaces for them. And that's not acceptable. It's not my when my 17 year old is telling you there's something wrong. Listen to her. It shouldn't take her 40 something year old mama to come through the door. And then we both of us run the risk to have a scared and called on us. And let me get too loud. I mean, but that's real. I used to watch the craziness in the emergency room and the people who were labeled and treated in ways that aren't acceptable for us to treat any human, especially not a human in emergency room seeking support. Yeah. And it comes down to racial bias and prejudice. Yeah, when Tony was killed, they they told us that if we didn't stop crying so loudly, that they weren't only gonna have to ask us to leave, but we were gonna be escorted by the UW police. Got lost by them. No, that's real. I used to work for another community organization and our work was violence interruption. I've got that on video too, by the way, it's on the documentary. But there's a big, big part of that job. The last year that me and my colleagues contracted with them, a big part of that job felt like we were back up to the security at the UW hospital, right? That they would be a shooting. They would expect droves of black folks who are upset. And we me and my colleague would be in the room working with with mothers and family members on trauma, breathing, just getting through that initial shock of crisis. And the fellows would be crowd control in the hallway, so that the police wouldn't have to call the police, basically, so that the security wouldn't have to involve the police. And there's, that's, there's like a realness to that. And also, what the f? What the f? Yeah. All right, you're in there mourning a young soul. I'm not even talking about how it went down. Let's just talk about here in their mourning a young soul. Who, who comes and tells you to quiet down? Yeah, we didn't, we didn't even know. We didn't know that's why we were just heartbroken. So something's got to change. Yeah, something's got to change. So allies, we talked a lot to the black community allies. This is something you need to know about, you need to care about, you need to work on. This is not, this isn't a place to be performative. This is a place to really dig in and do some work, whether that's donating your time and your money, your talent to the foundation and to other organizations that work on this, whether it's educating yourself, that's a great place to start. Find out the statistics, find out the solutions, find out ways that you can support. Learn about a doula. Learn about black midwives. Yeah. Learn about the work that they're doing. Let's find out Jasmine Jones. Okay. And then also, let's find out we have such a small number of black doula. It's really hard to get trained and to get a black doula. Milwaukee's a hub. Yeah, it is. Milwaukee's a hub, but there's just not enough of them. There's not enough money in the world to support it, but it's a high need. It is. All right. We're almost to the end. Yeah, take the first day, baby. And thank you. We teed up. 89.9 word. Go out, see these events, go out and support these people. Go to the ball around, go to the vice rose, vice of Roy's. 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