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AST SPEAKS WITH QueenMother Dr ChenziRa Davis Kahina × · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, May I have your attention please. The
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Speaker 1: show starts in seven line eight seven six fry one.
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Speaker 2: Greetings, Hotep, and welcome yet again to another live broadcast
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Speaker 2: here the Divas on the airways.
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Speaker 3: How about that?
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Speaker 2: So when we talk about our speaks and we talk
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Speaker 2: about these different elements of power and prosperity and how
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Speaker 2: we use knowledge systems, not just knowledge for the sake
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Speaker 2: of knowledge, but knowledge systems that really provide institutions that
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Speaker 2: help us. It allows for us to stay as balanced
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Speaker 2: as is humanly possible, and maybe we'll elevate that that
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Speaker 2: is spiritually possible even in the medsic chaos. This is
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Speaker 2: your host of US Speaks Building a new legacy. Doctor
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Speaker 2: chencra my title that people always affectionately call me is
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Speaker 2: Queen Mother, doctor chen Zera, or doctor Chen. I really
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Speaker 2: am grateful for persons that are here tonight that are
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Speaker 2: actually taking some time to join us around OST Speaks
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Speaker 2: building a new legacy.
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Speaker 3: We've been at this a.
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Speaker 2: Couple of years on this particular broadcast, but we're also
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Speaker 2: able to say that we've been moving and grooving with
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Speaker 2: the Crew podcast and they're going into another season in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, and we're really excited about that. We
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Speaker 2: want to give those applause for their ability to keep
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Speaker 2: this going and moving so that we can actually speak
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Speaker 2: truth as power and highlight some things on interdisciplinary types
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Speaker 2: of trans cultural versations. This podcast is about having discussions
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Speaker 2: or conversations, not just conversations and not just verbs, but
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Speaker 2: life centered discussions that are around transformative movements that are
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Speaker 2: happening in the Caribbean, which where I reside currently, as
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Speaker 2: well as Africa, Europe, Eurasia, so we can actually make
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Speaker 2: that linkage of what's happening on the other side of
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Speaker 2: the Atlantic to the North as well as throughout the Americas.
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Speaker 2: And when we say the Americas, we're speaking of Canada,
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Speaker 2: North America, all of that together, the forty eight contiguous
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Speaker 2: to us to people like to just call America, but
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Speaker 2: America goes from the north pole to the South Pole,
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Speaker 2: so we're speaking of the entire Caribbean region. We're speaking
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Speaker 2: of the Central American countries and nations as well as
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Speaker 2: South America and the nations therein This gives us an
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Speaker 2: opportunity to really discuss some areas and bring some things
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Speaker 2: that allow us to have a fresh perspective on social affairs,
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Speaker 2: cultural affairs, political affairs that are shaping our world and
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Speaker 2: the forces uplifting or challenging that we can begin to
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Speaker 2: tune in and actually explore the legacies that we build
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Speaker 2: together and the past towards a very just interconnected future,
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Speaker 2: always thinking of the future, because when we speak of
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Speaker 2: the future, we're speaking of afro futurisms, not just afro futurisms,
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Speaker 2: but the soul, the spirit, the flesh, the energy of
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Speaker 2: light that it is happening for us in our future.
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Speaker 2: And with that being shared, I'm really hoping that my
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Speaker 2: invited guests are able to come into the platform and
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Speaker 2: not have any issues, and in the event that they
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Speaker 2: do have some issues, before I even deal with some introductions,
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Speaker 2: I would like to just share a special shout out
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Speaker 2: to the organizations in our community that are actually provide
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Speaker 2: I support during this month of October that is nationally
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Speaker 2: designated as Domestic Violence Awareness Month and all that comes
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Speaker 2: with that. I'm really excited to know that there are
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Speaker 2: a number of brothers and sisters throughout the globe that
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Speaker 2: are being part of this national versation. We also know
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Speaker 2: that there has been some activities around breaking the silence
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Speaker 2: of college conversation on domestic violence, and that was something
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Speaker 2: that happened even right here in the Virgin Islands, you know,
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Speaker 2: with the support of the Women's Coalition of Saint Croix
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Speaker 2: as well as the Zeta Phi Beta sorority along with
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Speaker 2: the at the University of the Virgin Islands, which is
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Speaker 2: the only historically black college and university and a land
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Speaker 2: grand institution in the Caribbean space. I really would like
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Speaker 2: to get more information on what transpired in some of
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Speaker 2: those versations, because I know that a lot of persons
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Speaker 2: may not be fully aware of what's going on and
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Speaker 2: regarding domestic violence awareness. And this is a great opportunity,
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Speaker 2: a great segue into some of the other conversations that
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Speaker 2: we will begin to share this evening. There's also a
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Speaker 2: very serious matto that is happening in this region in
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Speaker 2: regard to maintaining the Caribbean island spaces in this part
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Speaker 2: of the Americas as the zone of peace. Not to
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Speaker 2: say that there hasn't been imbalance, not to say that
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Speaker 2: there has not been instability in certain arenas. However, it's
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Speaker 2: very important for us to remind persons that here in
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Speaker 2: the Caribbean, the last time that there was some really
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Speaker 2: engaging chaos. We can speak of what is transpired and
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Speaker 2: Hiti and we know some of the ins and outs
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Speaker 2: of that. We also know some of the damages that
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Speaker 2: have happened to countries, like nations that are sovereign, like
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Speaker 2: Cuba with an embargo that has existed for more than
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Speaker 2: sixty years, justified, unjustified. Let's be clear, embargoes are not
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Speaker 2: fruitful for the persons in those respective countries, especially when
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Speaker 2: there are forces that are benefiting from those respective countries,
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Speaker 2: yet they're still instituting an embargo against them. So we
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Speaker 2: want to be clear. And now what we see happening
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Speaker 2: brewing in the region of Venezuela, the region of Venezuela
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Speaker 2: as sovereign country again and Guyana sovereign country again, and
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Speaker 2: issues that are being augmented by activities led by some
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Speaker 2: of the leadership, the leadership in Trinidad and Tobago in
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Speaker 2: that region, having US military as well as Eurasian military,
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Speaker 2: and that's what we're talking about. Everyone seems to be
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Speaker 2: interested in this region and we need this to be
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Speaker 2: restored as a zone, a clear zone of peace. So
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Speaker 2: with that being shared, I really am grateful to highlight
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Speaker 2: some different elements that have been shared through a number
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Speaker 2: of different platforms. We've had the opportunity to also see
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Speaker 2: some highlights right here in the Virgin Islands here on
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Speaker 2: Saint Croix. Tonight, there was a series of activities. As
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Speaker 2: I've mentioned, there were activities around domestic violence awareness. There
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Speaker 2: were activities through the day where we had a wonderful
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Speaker 2: intellectual exchange with scholars from the University of the Virgin
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Speaker 2: Islands as well as from the University of Puerto Rico,
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Speaker 2: Rio Bildras and other campuses as well. And this was
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Speaker 2: led by whatever our own associate professors here in the
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Speaker 2: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, doctor Mary Walters,
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Speaker 2: in concert with scholars from the University of Puerto Rico
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Speaker 2: re Affair and I would be remiss because I want
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Speaker 2: to go through all of the names. Where we also
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Speaker 2: had some of our own professors instructor Chanelle heard no
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Speaker 2: Chanelle John heard share some fabulous poetry that's published. We
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Speaker 2: also heard from Associate Professor Brown who also is part
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Speaker 2: of the Foreign Languages. Let me correct myself, modern languages.
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Speaker 2: They're not foreign modern languages at the University of the
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Speaker 2: Virgin Islands, Doctor Sally de la Gado from Fasora Ruis,
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Speaker 2: and there were several others that I want to go
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Speaker 2: through that ultimate list again because I think it's important
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Speaker 2: to know that we had scholars that were celebrating is
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Speaker 2: librating Virgin Islands Puerto Rican friendship that is usually coincides
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Speaker 2: with his American Heritage Month from September fifteenth to October
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Speaker 2: fifteenth annually, and this was a wonderful opportunity to see
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Speaker 2: from what activities happened in the community, inclusive of wonderful
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Speaker 2: gathering and an award ceremony last week at the Government
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Speaker 2: House of the Virgin Islands with the at in Saint Croix,
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Speaker 2: and then there were just a wondrous number of other
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Speaker 2: activities that happened. It was a black party in Christian
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Speaker 2: Instead that brought together a variety of advanced from Puerto
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Speaker 2: Rico as well as the Virgin Islands. It was wonderful
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Speaker 2: to see people celebrating in spaces in a time where
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Speaker 2: sometimes people get somewhat depressed, despondent, traumatized with things that
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Speaker 2: are happening in the world. But it was wonderful to
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Speaker 2: see people not just walk up. We need to clear
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Speaker 2: that up but to come together and fellowship and share together,
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Speaker 2: care together, bread together.
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Speaker 3: It was en beverage.
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Speaker 2: I think that was really wonderful. And then Sunday they
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Speaker 2: had a fun day at what we know is Altona
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Speaker 2: lagoon in Christianstead and brought families together. So the children
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Speaker 2: of people brought their children, their elders told stories saying,
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Speaker 2: you know, did various connections, whether it was around boomba, dance, play,
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Speaker 2: bachata south. It was just a wonderful opportunity. And of
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Speaker 2: course you know, the soul called some Kayeso plypso to
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Speaker 2: show that connection of the Virgin Islands with Puerto Crico
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Speaker 2: for more than a century. We may speak of the
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Speaker 2: migrations that happened in the early twentieth century, but these
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Speaker 2: connections and these migrations go back into the eighteen hundreds
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Speaker 2: and for some much earlier when we speak of the
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Speaker 2: indigenous presence. So I really am grateful to know and
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Speaker 2: see that there is a vibration I'm feeling, you know,
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Speaker 2: because when we talk of our speaks, we are speaking
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Speaker 2: of building a new generation and really generating transformation, that
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Speaker 2: is building legacy. It's really really important that persons to
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Speaker 2: recognize some of that, some of the other things that
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Speaker 2: we were very fortunate to be able to have transpire
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Speaker 2: over this last these last few days, has been a
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Speaker 2: number there have been a number of wishless that are
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Speaker 2: being circulated here in the Virgin Islands, and we have
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Speaker 2: a number of other activities that really coincide because when
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Speaker 2: we talk about domestic violence, it's not just talking about
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Speaker 2: the actual act and challenge, but we're also talking about
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Speaker 2: how do people grow, how do people learn, how do
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Speaker 2: people move forward, how do we build stronger families, and
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Speaker 2: how do we keep those families together healthy, with wellness
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Speaker 2: at the forefront. And that brings up another set of
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Speaker 2: conversations because sometimes we overlook something very very simplistic. You know,
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Speaker 2: Today October sixteenth is also another opportunity for us to
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Speaker 2: look at these these national days that observe Like everyone
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Speaker 2: that's wearing purple, I think you'll notice that I have
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Speaker 2: on purple as well. I tend to wear purple on
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Speaker 2: these days anyway. But it's kind of interesting to me
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Speaker 2: that some people will forget that you almost want to
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Speaker 2: wear purple all month during Domestic Violence Awareness Month because
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Speaker 2: there's always some type of a commemorative engagement, and it
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Speaker 2: gives us an opportunity to do two different things. We
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Speaker 2: talk about, you know how people have to Take Back
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Speaker 2: Night initiatives, But October sixteenth, what people refer to as
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Speaker 2: Purple Thursday, is also a day that and I quote
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Speaker 2: to raise awareness and take a stand against domestic violence.
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Speaker 2: During Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the National Network to End
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Speaker 2: Domestic Violence and other organizations encourage everyone to wear purple.
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Speaker 2: So if you didn't have your purple on the day,
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Speaker 2: that's all right. Keep something purple throughout the month of October,
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Speaker 2: during the entire month that observes National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
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Speaker 2: And we're really encouraging other people to encourage other people
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Speaker 2: in organizations to show solidarity with those that have survived,
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Speaker 2: to show honor to those who've been lost, and of
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Speaker 2: course spark conversations about support about safety and security. It's
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Speaker 2: really important to keep that in the forefront of some
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Speaker 2: of our activities. This is also there's been a number
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Speaker 2: of activities. Usually there is a take Back to Night
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Speaker 2: silent march and rally around this time. I know that
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Speaker 2: many people in many parts of the nation are very
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Speaker 2: hesitant to even be out in the night because of
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Speaker 2: some of the other than positive activities that have happened,
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Speaker 2: you know, So I encourage people like here, if you're
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Speaker 2: in Saint Croix, if you're in the Virgin Islands, go
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Speaker 2: to wc T at w c T SX right, just
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Speaker 2: take your time and look at the hotline if you
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Speaker 2: have a concern, you need information. I've always, you know,
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Speaker 2: reminded myself to stay in touch with the Women's Coalition
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Speaker 2: of Saying Croy for a variety of reasons, because they
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Speaker 2: really provide a variety of support. So let me get
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Speaker 2: that website correct, wc STX dot org again, wc STX
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Speaker 2: dot org. They help those in need twenty four seven
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Speaker 2: three sixty five three sixty six on leap years. There's
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Speaker 2: always a resource, there's always a voice, there's always a
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Speaker 2: way that you can get the support that you need,
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Speaker 2: especially if you're in an insecure or unsafe more specifically
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Speaker 2: spaced So I would like to make sure that I
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Speaker 2: highlight that as well. The other part that since I'm
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Speaker 2: not seeing my guests come in, I would like to
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Speaker 2: take a moment and see where they are and find
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Speaker 2: out because I am really amazed at a number of
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Speaker 2: things that are transpiring in the region. There's a lot
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Speaker 2: going on. We're gonna shift. There's a lot going on
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Speaker 2: around economic drivers, economic development, tourism even in the midst
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Speaker 2: of travel, looking very peculiar, but there's a number of
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Speaker 2: things that are really powerfully supportive of how we bring
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Speaker 2: some of these conversations together. I think that that's the
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Speaker 2: part that we're really looking into as we speak. There's
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Speaker 2: a number of activities taking place so that we can
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Speaker 2: actually that allow for a shift in how we engage
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Speaker 2: in some of our organizational activities. And this is also
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Speaker 2: good evening. Good Evening, Sister Quaine Sheryl Northern Lagran. It's
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Speaker 2: an honor and a privilege to have you join us.
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Speaker 2: You know, there are so many pieces of information, there's
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Speaker 2: something that you would like to do to help with
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Speaker 2: various National Domestic Violence Awareness Month activities. I am confident
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Speaker 2: that wherever you are, whatever part of the world, definitely
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Speaker 2: in the region, but at whatever part of the world
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Speaker 2: in which you're listening, hearing, engaging in this podcast, do
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Speaker 2: your part help save someone. One of the things that
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Speaker 2: I would like to highlight as well is I had
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Speaker 2: the opportunity to and this movie actually came into the
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Speaker 2: fruition it was produced in twenty twenty three, and it's
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Speaker 2: was an interesting reminder that of what goes into doing
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Speaker 2: a film. It's not like it just popped and go.
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Speaker 2: But what was powerful was to be able while we're
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Speaker 2: honoring and acknowledging it. And it was interesting for me to
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Speaker 2: have young people, you know, folks under thirty that really
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Speaker 2: caught on to just looking at a two minute trailer.
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Speaker 2: And I encourage people. You know, it's on YouTube. You
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Speaker 2: can look for the official trailer for choke Hold and
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Speaker 2: before you just find the band you would like to
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Speaker 2: put in the film by Joel? Are you j O
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Speaker 2: E l A y Uk. And I want to highlight
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Speaker 2: that this is a film that it was put you
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Speaker 2: see it on imd B in twenty twenty four. Formally
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Speaker 2: it's got some you know, the director, the producer, the writer,
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Speaker 2: some of the stars in the film. And this is
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Speaker 2: how you know that this is It means a lot
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Speaker 2: to this director, this writer, as well as the star
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Speaker 2: in the film. And that's none other than Joel. You know,
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Speaker 2: I think it's important for persons to know there is
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Speaker 2: a lot that is going on, is a lot that's
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Speaker 2: happening in our region and it's very important for us
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Speaker 2: to be an interval play a dog part in how
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Speaker 2: we talk about domestic violence and the awareness not just
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Speaker 2: the themistick violence and the essence of the damage, but
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Speaker 2: the awareness, the prevention and how to handle trauma professionally
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Speaker 2: and in the most holistic way that helps to restore
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Speaker 2: the wholeness and the harmony of anyone that is impacted
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Speaker 2: by any form of domestic violence. I think it's really
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Speaker 2: important also to be confident, excuse me, be confident in
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Speaker 2: knowing a couple of things, you know, when we talk
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Speaker 2: about you know, who are some of the entities you know?
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Speaker 2: Because I think it's powerful when you're going to reduce, direct,
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Speaker 2: and star and write in a particular production. I think
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Speaker 2: that that speaks vils I'll excuse me, in the film
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Speaker 2: and speaks volumes. Yes, I'm almost excited. Yes, I'll get
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Speaker 2: excited in a moment. Let me say, I'll finish this
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Speaker 2: last point. My illustrious guests have joined us. I'm beyond elated,
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Speaker 2: So I'll close out with this last part on the
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Speaker 2: film Chocoals, I encourage persons to look for the official trailer,
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Speaker 2: but again, you want to make sure you look for
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Speaker 2: the trailer that came out in twenty twenty four, and
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Speaker 2: it's produced, written, directed, and starred and by Joel j
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Speaker 2: o e l A y Uk. We're gonna come back
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Speaker 2: to that conversation a little later because our guests have
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Speaker 2: joined us, and I'm really excited to welcome them. I am.
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Speaker 2: It's an honor and privilege to have you join us,
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Speaker 2: Sister Queen Makeda Macosa.
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Speaker 3: I've been you know, cleaning and and you know, I'm
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Speaker 3: trying to look good to get it. You got it
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Speaker 3: going on. You you're going.
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Speaker 4: You know, I've been in there doing you know, getting
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Speaker 4: things ready. So we're you know, I got I brought
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Speaker 4: Sister Khalida out of the kitchen.
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Speaker 3: You know, I see this. I say, like, you know,
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Speaker 3: you guys gotta you know, just just just.
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Speaker 4: You know, we we were you go, Sister Khalida say, Hi, Hey.
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Speaker 2: There we go, lean back, greetings, Greetings. Is a privileged
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Speaker 2: to have you join us, live here on US Speaks,
22:39
Speaker 2: building a new generation, building a new legacy.
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Speaker 3: Tell me something about this, I'll speak. I like it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the whole idea of I Speaks is dealing
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Speaker 2: with ancestral sacred traditions. As we know is the divine mother,
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Speaker 2: the divine feminine, the divine energy that brings that that feel,
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Speaker 2: that female vibe, that woman is vibe in a way
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Speaker 2: that really allows us to restore truth, just disorder, balance, reciprocity, harmony,
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Speaker 2: divine righteousness. Mod that's what we're doing when we speak
23:17
Speaker 2: of us speaks and just putting that spoken word into fruition,
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Speaker 2: really manifesting womnifesting. How about that Wollm manifesting the things
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Speaker 2: that we know. Restore greatness, restore balance, restore order, restore
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Speaker 2: our creativity, strengthen our culture, facilitates what we do with culture, agriculture, aquaculture,
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Speaker 2: transformative things, spirituality, all of our meditative work, and being
23:46
Speaker 2: able to put all of that in like one spot
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Speaker 2: whenever needed. So we recognize that we are pluriversal. We
23:54
Speaker 2: know that when we talk about the universe, we're speaking
23:57
Speaker 2: of a universe that is more like a wombniverse in
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Speaker 2: our versation. So that's a part of what US speaks
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Speaker 2: and building a new legacy so that that way we
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Speaker 2: can always have guests like yourself that really restore and
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Speaker 2: implement that on a daily basis. So before I even
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Speaker 2: go too much further, on just what we do. I
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Speaker 2: just wild like people to know that, you know, who
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Speaker 2: we have with us is one of our esteemed eldresses,
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Speaker 2: two esteemed eldresses. You know, I'll speak person of my
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Speaker 2: sister Queen. I always call a sister queen, Eldress Makata
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Speaker 2: Dread and you know she has been a entrepreneur, human
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Speaker 2: rights activist, agriculturists, agritourism, agribusiness, sustainable development, research education. If
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Speaker 2: you don't know about heirlom seeds, you're going to learn a.
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Speaker 3: Little something something today.
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Speaker 2: Just to add that to and she is the founder
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Speaker 2: of the World Beat Center, the World Beat Cultural Center
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Speaker 2: in Balboa Park in the San Diego community, and the
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Speaker 2: creator of the children's Ethnobotany, Peace Garden, co founder Casa
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Speaker 2: de Dune and Theojuana Mexico. I just think it's important
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Speaker 2: if people just get an extra little extra to know
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Speaker 2: the variety of not only awards, but achievements, publications, and
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Speaker 2: I would like to highlight some research publications, you know,
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Speaker 2: doing things with you know, the academies, some of the
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Speaker 2: top academies and universities in the country, as well as
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Speaker 2: outside of that, doing things around the water for Africa, Foundation,
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Speaker 2: engaging in the quote Channel ten Leadership Award as recipient,
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Speaker 2: you know, working on a variety of projects. I could
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Speaker 2: speak on our illustrious eldres sister, Queen Makeda Maketa dread
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Speaker 2: for hours just by looking at some of the work
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Speaker 2: that she's done and a legacy that extends beyond let's
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Speaker 2: make sure we get it right sixty plus years. So
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Speaker 2: don't get twisted if she looked young to you, just
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Speaker 2: it's no trust comple. She takes care of herself. You know,
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Speaker 2: she's of the radio network, is you know, one of
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Speaker 2: the first professional media locals in the West Coast. You know,
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Speaker 2: she broadcast on Fusion Radio one o two point five
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Speaker 2: of them. You know, she's been you're gonna you're not
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Speaker 2: gonna bring up I go bring up thing. I go
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Speaker 2: bring up thing, I go thing. And then I've had
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Speaker 2: the honor and privilege of having her as a jegna,
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Speaker 2: not just a mentor, but as a spiritual warrior and
26:41
Speaker 2: elders warrior for more than forty years. So I'm grateful.
26:47
Speaker 2: So that's why it was important, even if it was
26:50
Speaker 2: just kind of like can you come on this show,
26:52
Speaker 2: like just did we plan right? I wanted to bring
26:56
Speaker 2: that up, my beloved sister. Hmm, it's when I see
27:01
Speaker 2: because I'm seeing another layer of the twinness. So just
27:06
Speaker 2: feeling that energy because I see two, but I know
27:09
Speaker 2: it's three. So I'm you know, our beloved sister queen again.
27:16
Speaker 2: The people that feed you, you remember them, that's right,
27:20
Speaker 2: that feed you nourishment and teach you to nourish yourself,
27:25
Speaker 2: your families, your children, your grandchildren, and these sisters here. Okay,
27:31
Speaker 2: I'm going to I'm going to get hungry if I
27:33
Speaker 2: keep talking.
27:35
Speaker 3: Really you got hungry if you ate this meal. But
27:38
Speaker 3: we're just.
27:44
Speaker 4: We had some ancestors. That's what we need to call that. Yeah,
27:48
Speaker 4: we gotta call that. You know we had you know,
27:51
Speaker 4: these black eyed teas were just we're different with black
27:55
Speaker 4: eyed peas.
27:57
Speaker 2: And then talk about it. I want to hear.
27:58
Speaker 5: I want to hear in want to give us that. Yeah,
28:02
Speaker 5: the black that put an African season in them. You know,
28:06
Speaker 5: we had some African herbs and smoked Africa.
28:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, that smoke.
28:11
Speaker 4: You know that that they use that and jolly rice.
28:17
Speaker 3: You know that's we had Miller you know, you know
28:21
Speaker 3: me and mill it.
28:23
Speaker 2: You know, I know you made Militation the way that
28:26
Speaker 2: people just wanted to stuck on their fingernails and go inside.
28:30
Speaker 2: I remember, I remember.
28:33
Speaker 4: You know, you know, Miller, there's sixteen how many kinds
28:37
Speaker 4: of militaris that we just found out at sixteen sixteen
28:41
Speaker 4: And the mill of has more protein.
28:44
Speaker 3: Than any other any other grade.
28:48
Speaker 4: It's it's not you know, it's it's really lowly rated.
28:53
Speaker 4: And so get to Miller with all this stuff coming on,
28:56
Speaker 4: the millan is cheap, you know, not right, do do
29:00
Speaker 4: the Millan?
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Speaker 3: That's our ancestors.
29:02
Speaker 4: Food is Ethiopia, the ancient great you know, last year
29:08
Speaker 4: the U n U proclaim millet the year of the million,
29:13
Speaker 4: the year of the million, you know, and they yes,
29:16
Speaker 4: and they encourage people all over the world to grow
29:19
Speaker 4: millet million. So you guys put that in here because
29:25
Speaker 4: they haven't got help to that yet.
29:26
Speaker 3: So you know, be storing your food right now. What's
29:29
Speaker 3: going on?
29:31
Speaker 4: And mill it is one of the greats because you
29:33
Speaker 4: can sprout it, you know you can.
29:36
Speaker 3: We're getting ready to.
29:37
Speaker 4: To do these well, I must tell you, well, let
29:42
Speaker 4: me tell you this. We're getting ready to sprout these
29:46
Speaker 4: these wheeatberries. You know, sprouted is cool, and we're getting
29:50
Speaker 4: ready this lady. We know she does love looads. So
29:54
Speaker 4: we got we got her to tell us what you
29:56
Speaker 4: know we've been for years. Yeah, and grind grinds because
30:01
Speaker 4: you know she's getting ready to get out of Yeah,
30:07
Speaker 4: that's powerful. She used she used to make this miller
30:12
Speaker 4: love loaf. She love lo love loads made from weed.
30:16
Speaker 3: A lot of people eating weed, but you know, so
30:22
Speaker 3: it's more digestive, Yeah it is.
30:24
Speaker 4: And then she put blas in there and some gender
30:28
Speaker 4: and she grinded up and she made these little love
30:31
Speaker 4: loads and then she and then she make it a
30:34
Speaker 4: low you know, uh gang about one hundred and something dehydrator. Dehydrator.
30:41
Speaker 4: You know she was She was always the one I
30:44
Speaker 4: would come in there. She would have have to be
30:48
Speaker 4: cooking in her solar oven. Nice. She's a pietier man.
30:54
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll put Those are the things that persons need
30:57
Speaker 2: to know so that they can address their wellness. And
31:01
Speaker 2: that's the part that I want to highlight for the
31:03
Speaker 2: both of you as well, is that these are elder
31:07
Speaker 2: sister queens that have been consistent, no better word, consistent
31:14
Speaker 2: in the legacy of making sure that we ate well.
31:18
Speaker 2: We were learning to grow our food sprout our food
31:21
Speaker 2: as you're hearing and really bringing this to wider communities.
31:24
Speaker 2: So when you want to know a little extra, make
31:28
Speaker 2: sure that you go to these sites that I'm recalling,
31:32
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna say it again begin in the middle,
31:35
Speaker 2: in the beginning, and again towards the end. But you
31:38
Speaker 2: want to go to Worldbetcenter dot org. That way you
31:42
Speaker 2: can find out about even if you're not living in
31:45
Speaker 2: the West Coast, but you're going to probably want to
31:48
Speaker 2: do a pass through, not a drive by, but a
31:52
Speaker 2: pass through because you're going to want to have a
31:54
Speaker 2: qualitative experience with World Beat Cultural Center because it's not
32:00
Speaker 2: only the creativity through transformation, but it's a creativity with diversity.
32:07
Speaker 2: It's a creativity that deals with all of agriculture, architecture, sustainability, environmentalism.
32:16
Speaker 2: You're going to learn some astronomy and you're going to
32:20
Speaker 2: be dealing with the arts. So just think of that
32:23
Speaker 2: four a program right agriculture. Just go to people, get
32:27
Speaker 2: it clear, because I think it's important to know. And
32:30
Speaker 2: this has been going on for it's been more than
32:32
Speaker 2: thirty years, right, Oh.
32:34
Speaker 4: Well, we're about god. The Orbit Center here in the
32:40
Speaker 4: park is about thirty five of more beautiful and our
32:46
Speaker 4: whole production we've been doing it. It's probably about fifty
32:50
Speaker 4: five years or something.
32:52
Speaker 2: That's true. Sure, because we're going to pre the profit.
32:56
Speaker 2: We're going to pre correct.
32:58
Speaker 3: Problem productions and all those things.
33:01
Speaker 4: We've got a cultural center and it's in Bibeo Park
33:03
Speaker 4: and we have a farm now. So that's that's incredible,
33:07
Speaker 4: you know, and you know, growing your food right farm
33:12
Speaker 4: the table. You know, it's great, you're cooking your food.
33:16
Speaker 4: Uh at the profit. We had a greenhouse out there
33:19
Speaker 4: and we were doing.
33:20
Speaker 3: Our you know, some from some uh sun flower greens.
33:26
Speaker 4: And buckwheat letters and wheat grass and we got to
33:32
Speaker 4: bet doctor and wigmore the wheat grass.
33:34
Speaker 3: We brought wheat grass for our city, you know.
33:38
Speaker 4: And but now to have a farm and a green
33:42
Speaker 4: we're getting ready to go to the greenhouse is really
33:45
Speaker 4: you know what's happening. I was in Missouri and I
33:48
Speaker 4: was gonna try to see my son Yaqui awaken, and
33:53
Speaker 4: he was in he was in uh Atlanta, you know,
33:57
Speaker 4: so we missed each other, but out here a lot.
34:01
Speaker 3: But I want to see his farm. I mean he
34:04
Speaker 3: showed me he goes.
34:05
Speaker 4: You know, mama, all those those vegetables that you see
34:09
Speaker 4: is hold it up on the farm. Those are the
34:11
Speaker 4: seeds you gave us that our excellent the seed. So
34:16
Speaker 4: we're in seeds. So we're in seed saving and everything.
34:20
Speaker 4: I got seeds for people, you know. You know, I
34:24
Speaker 4: like to, you know, give seeds away. So you heirlooms, GMO,
34:32
Speaker 4: you got to have your heirloom seeds, you know, and
34:35
Speaker 4: we got I mean, I'm trying to figure out how
34:37
Speaker 4: I can send seeds.
34:40
Speaker 3: Or something, but we have.
34:42
Speaker 4: If you're in San Diego, I got seeds for you,
34:45
Speaker 4: and we got a seed library. It's so important that
34:48
Speaker 4: you control the seeds. Who controls the food controls the
34:52
Speaker 4: people and controls the land. So you got to get
34:56
Speaker 4: busy and start growing your foods, you know, if you
34:59
Speaker 4: can make containers, you know, so you know, I like
35:02
Speaker 4: to come on and we you know, bring different I
35:05
Speaker 4: like your your sins. I like you little tell me
35:08
Speaker 4: about your little you know platform here because we should
35:12
Speaker 4: you know, this is the way we should be communicating.
35:15
Speaker 2: Right, I think this is it. I want to She's
35:19
Speaker 2: in the background trying to be quiet, but one of
35:22
Speaker 2: the engineers that's working through this is just coming through.
35:26
Speaker 2: One of our sister Queens, the Visionary Angela, so you
35:29
Speaker 2: may see her on the other part of the platform,
35:32
Speaker 2: and at some point I hope that she tunes in
35:33
Speaker 2: as well, even because usually she's because she's managing this
35:38
Speaker 2: to like six days a week, wow, right, and doing
35:42
Speaker 2: this to make sure that a number of us have opportunities.
35:46
Speaker 2: She does a police with the sisters, you know, with
35:48
Speaker 2: the queens, and then she's got the kings doing some
35:51
Speaker 2: things for us and just keeping this so that we can,
35:55
Speaker 2: you know, work this towards being able to do publications,
35:58
Speaker 2: putting out messages. It's going on. You know, some of
36:02
Speaker 2: our broadcasts we do cover some things that are socially engaging,
36:10
Speaker 2: some that maybe controversial to some, But our focus is
36:14
Speaker 2: how do we move through these things with tranquility, harmony,
36:18
Speaker 2: peace to the best of our ability. How do we
36:21
Speaker 2: stay protected?
36:22
Speaker 3: You just said it.
36:23
Speaker 2: If we have to feed ourselves, you are saying it,
36:26
Speaker 2: we have to grow our food. And I know I'm
36:30
Speaker 2: coming some more, some more heirloom seeds, And I think
36:33
Speaker 2: just for the persons that may not be as familiar,
36:36
Speaker 2: I think it's really important for person to just be
36:39
Speaker 2: more familiarized. When people are speaking of heirloom seeds. We're
36:42
Speaker 2: speaking of those seeds. They're old fashioned seeds that are
36:46
Speaker 2: handed down from generation to generation, right and says sometimes
36:51
Speaker 2: they're as much as fifty or even older. And it's
36:54
Speaker 2: really important that these are the types of seeds themselves.
36:58
Speaker 2: They're not that they're old. It's that if they don't,
37:00
Speaker 2: it's not there. They will germinate well, once you prepare
37:04
Speaker 2: the soil and the water and things like that. This
37:07
Speaker 2: has nothing. This is like non GMO, no genetically modified
37:12
Speaker 2: organism seed like what people like to sell cheap or
37:17
Speaker 2: inexpensive and just get you know, giving way, these are
37:19
Speaker 2: seeds that really are I like the term old fashioned
37:23
Speaker 2: because then it allows persons to know that these are
37:25
Speaker 2: seeds that will grow and then you want to save
37:28
Speaker 2: the seed that comes from that fruit of right, that's
37:33
Speaker 2: what we did.
37:34
Speaker 4: You know, we we we pass it on, you know, uh,
37:38
Speaker 4: you know, we pass on the seeds. Hey, could you
37:42
Speaker 4: bring me some seeds out there?
37:43
Speaker 3: You know. That's what's happening is Bill Gates and.
37:46
Speaker 4: Them guys are they're in Africa, and they're making sure
37:51
Speaker 4: that you cannot you know, GMO, DMO, you can't, you
37:58
Speaker 4: can't have another seed. You can't grow another seed. They're
38:01
Speaker 4: trying to stop that. The farmers in Africa, you know,
38:05
Speaker 4: for having these these seeds you know, and uh and
38:09
Speaker 4: and doing seed they making it illegal. They made it
38:12
Speaker 4: illegal to swap your seeds, to do seed swaps. We
38:17
Speaker 4: do a seed swap. But I encourage everyone else to
38:20
Speaker 4: do that. I encourage you to to you know, have
38:27
Speaker 4: your own gardens and and save the seeds, you know,
38:33
Speaker 4: save the seeds. It's so important. And keep your you know,
38:38
Speaker 4: me and the ciszens. And you know, I'm not a
38:41
Speaker 4: I like my age. You know, people you know, but
38:43
Speaker 4: people tripped you know when they you know, they think
38:47
Speaker 4: that you know somebody your age. You know, when I'm
38:50
Speaker 4: eighty three, I just do an eighty three on July
38:55
Speaker 4: lessons leessense and but you know when you when you eat,
39:01
Speaker 4: when you eat right and you start doing your tai chi,
39:07
Speaker 4: your cheek gung.
39:08
Speaker 3: Main The main thing is drink. Yeah, I'm drinking. You know,
39:14
Speaker 3: I'm I'm drinking. If you drink it in the glass.
39:18
Speaker 4: You know, I got this plastic grad here, but normally
39:22
Speaker 4: drinking it in glass. Anything that you can do with
39:26
Speaker 4: your glass jars and right.
39:31
Speaker 3: So I'm a baker creek. Uh, heirloom seeds. Yeah, just
39:39
Speaker 3: so you know.
39:40
Speaker 4: Airloom seeds is some of the seeds that you don't
39:42
Speaker 4: you don't see like this tomato, Yes, that's it, an
39:47
Speaker 4: orange tomato. Okay, and uh and then I I like this,
39:54
Speaker 4: this is fineless opra. Like if you guys know about
39:58
Speaker 4: the okra, it's so importan because trying to keep those
40:03
Speaker 4: opras together. Okra has that musically, you know, that slimy
40:07
Speaker 4: stuff that you really did then like that is that
40:12
Speaker 4: is the stuff that's good.
40:13
Speaker 2: For you, right because it heals. It heals the entire body.
40:17
Speaker 3: It's like cactus.
40:19
Speaker 4: Yes, the same thing on like on cactus, you know,
40:22
Speaker 4: and the slimy stuff. So you just what you do
40:27
Speaker 4: is you cut the the okra and put it in
40:31
Speaker 4: a jar, and then you put water in it and
40:35
Speaker 4: leave it overnight and that slime that musically that or
40:40
Speaker 4: you can put a lemon in there and then you
40:43
Speaker 4: drink it at you drink it at night and I
40:46
Speaker 4: mean the next morning, yes, and that your headaches and
40:49
Speaker 4: and all these different things, you.
40:51
Speaker 2: Know, because it clears out your gastro intestinal system if yeah,
40:55
Speaker 2: provides balance in your cardiovascular system fields through anything in
41:00
Speaker 2: terms of any kind of skin or in military system,
41:05
Speaker 2: it really helps the body to stay balanced, right line,
41:09
Speaker 2: You're absolutely correct, and.
41:11
Speaker 3: That's why that's why we're so healthy as the people.
41:14
Speaker 2: Right.
41:15
Speaker 3: This is Chinese reddish.
41:18
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, So all these different things in their airloom.
41:26
Speaker 2: You know, I'm coming from my portion. You don't got
41:28
Speaker 2: a mail mind, I'm gonna get it together. So yeah,
41:32
Speaker 2: I don't want anything to be interfered with or pay
41:35
Speaker 2: past through anything.
41:36
Speaker 3: Person I can just bring with Yes, that's it. That's it.
41:40
Speaker 2: Yes, because we can bring Washington State apples that are sprayed.
41:43
Speaker 2: They should be You shouldn't be fighting people about, right
41:46
Speaker 2: uh uh right, yeah, this is uh and that seas
41:55
Speaker 2: right yeah, right now, almost everything when you go into
41:59
Speaker 2: most of them a depth. Well let me speak for here.
42:02
Speaker 2: I know there's more variety in the forty eight contiguous,
42:05
Speaker 2: but here, even in the Virgin Islands, the US side,
42:09
Speaker 2: unless you're getting it from the farmers in our farmer's market,
42:14
Speaker 2: then you're left open solely to seed seedless grapesless, oranges seedless,
42:23
Speaker 2: watermelon seedless.
42:24
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm not sure this candalog they got that
42:29
Speaker 3: over the other candalog do you know.
42:31
Speaker 2: I was like, when you open the candop and there's
42:32
Speaker 2: nothing like that was the whole thing about Candalo.
42:36
Speaker 3: The thing is scooping out the season.
42:38
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So there's been some challenges and I realized, like,
42:44
Speaker 2: you know, I tend to get at least what my
42:46
Speaker 2: family and I do. We tend to take in what
42:50
Speaker 2: is grown here in its most natural scene. So if
42:53
Speaker 2: it's magnis in season, you eating mango for a while.
42:57
Speaker 3: If it's.
42:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like it's out for a while, you know.
43:02
Speaker 2: If it's sour, sps, sugar, that's what you're eating, you know,
43:04
Speaker 2: banana things like bananas, figs like that. We have almost
43:08
Speaker 2: all year round, you know, lemon and limon. So we
43:11
Speaker 2: have our own. We have a sour orange as well
43:14
Speaker 2: as the sweet orange.
43:15
Speaker 3: Yeah we got we got the sour Yeah, we got
43:17
Speaker 3: the thur or that's what you know.
43:19
Speaker 4: Those guys that looking at it, Yeah, what do you
43:23
Speaker 4: do with your sour orange?
43:25
Speaker 3: Well, we use it.
43:26
Speaker 2: We primarily we will use it to put in different
43:31
Speaker 2: juices to just make sure that it has that that
43:35
Speaker 2: natural flavoring. Some persons won't use the sour orange, like
43:40
Speaker 2: if they're preparing steamed greens or if they're doing like
43:44
Speaker 2: a salad or kale, they'll use that over on it
43:47
Speaker 2: as well, and then we'll add you know, other herbs
43:51
Speaker 2: and spices. You know, let it marinate so that way
43:54
Speaker 2: it's almost like it without you really cooking it. You
43:57
Speaker 2: can get all of the vitamins from the various screens.
44:01
Speaker 2: With a lot of persons here are producing like a
44:05
Speaker 2: charred and pop choy, different types of lettuces, usually lettuces
44:10
Speaker 2: that are heat resistant because with the winter we need
44:15
Speaker 2: a lot of that. And I'm just excited because what
44:17
Speaker 2: I'm seeing is that person a little bit of everybody
44:20
Speaker 2: is starting they're starting to do micro greens, and yeah,
44:24
Speaker 2: I love it, you know so because again because if
44:28
Speaker 2: you go to buy them, they're really mad expensive. And
44:30
Speaker 2: when you see it's almost like the little chia pet
44:33
Speaker 2: that people have, you can eat that. Then people start saying, oh,
44:36
Speaker 2: you can do that with bradishes, you can do that
44:38
Speaker 2: by foul fall, you know, you can do with buff meet,
44:41
Speaker 2: et cetera. And I think that that's how even things
44:44
Speaker 2: like we keep a lot of dry goods because sometimes
44:47
Speaker 2: we don't, you know, during the hurricane season, which is
44:50
Speaker 2: still in effect until the persons, you know, are you.
44:54
Speaker 2: Most people are depending on can things, but a lot
44:56
Speaker 2: of us are using just dry goods and then as
44:59
Speaker 2: we meet them we sprout then. But yeah, and if
45:03
Speaker 2: we may sprout and create, great, you know, create a
45:06
Speaker 2: bread or a loaf or you know, prepare them, you know,
45:10
Speaker 2: cook them, you know, cook them with you know other
45:13
Speaker 2: Now we're gonna get better on this millet though, because
45:15
Speaker 2: a lot here in the Caribbean it's primarily like rice,
45:19
Speaker 2: you know, rice and potato, you know.
45:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, shin we make porge, you know, I had yesterday
45:29
Speaker 4: and you know, my sister made it to my other
45:35
Speaker 4: sister and Bernee she made it and she put maple
45:40
Speaker 4: syrup and and then she you know, blended it up.
45:43
Speaker 3: But it was nice.
45:48
Speaker 2: Okay, we can't be talking all this food.
45:53
Speaker 4: Rice on the side with someone come around so much food,
45:58
Speaker 4: you know, true?
46:02
Speaker 3: Oh man, so.
46:04
Speaker 2: But uh yeah, Batistically, I'd like for you to share
46:08
Speaker 2: some of your experience as a as a as a
46:11
Speaker 2: masterful chef as well. So please share some of that
46:15
Speaker 2: which you have done, some of the things you actually
46:17
Speaker 2: were living. You were actually residing with us here in
46:21
Speaker 2: Saint Croix. For min, I'm trying to get sister clean
46:25
Speaker 2: Macata to come back.
46:27
Speaker 3: Come.
46:29
Speaker 2: I know that you know you've lived here, so you
46:31
Speaker 2: know some of the dynamics of being in Saint Croix,
46:34
Speaker 2: being in the Virgin Islands. I would love for you
46:36
Speaker 2: to just share a bit of your legacy, some of
46:38
Speaker 2: your story.
46:40
Speaker 5: You know. Yes, when I was there, I I my
46:45
Speaker 5: sister and I had created the milletburger and so we
46:49
Speaker 5: did that a lot. We shared that with the community
46:52
Speaker 5: and it was millet and oats and different seasonings and.
46:58
Speaker 2: It was a really popular. Yeah.
47:01
Speaker 4: And we also did a tabouli and yeah, that was
47:06
Speaker 4: really good and we we.
47:09
Speaker 3: Loved We even made our own tofu.
47:12
Speaker 4: We would go out to the sea and get the
47:14
Speaker 4: salt water to coagulate this soy milk to make the tofu.
47:19
Speaker 3: We made tofu. We made burgers.
47:21
Speaker 4: We had two different burgers, and you know, we worked
47:25
Speaker 4: at the Yuka Kitchen and we made we made for
47:29
Speaker 4: we were the ladies.
47:31
Speaker 3: That's great, y'all made, y'all.
47:32
Speaker 2: That's that's a whole other legacy because people took that
47:34
Speaker 2: legacy to the next level. What you all pro established
47:39
Speaker 2: YUKA For those that aren't familiar, it stands for the
47:42
Speaker 2: United Caribbean Association and they do have. They still have
47:45
Speaker 2: maintained that kitchen, you know, close to forty years now,
47:50
Speaker 2: and even though they're in the process of having the
47:54
Speaker 2: building renovated, you know, after various hurricanes and other damages,
48:00
Speaker 2: it's coming to it's coming into tuitions, you know. So again,
48:03
Speaker 2: your legacy has been great. I'm just grateful that you
48:07
Speaker 2: but please continue, because you say, listening to you, I've
48:09
Speaker 2: got to go back, and because I remember you had
48:11
Speaker 2: the packets so that we can make it ourselves and
48:13
Speaker 2: our homes.
48:14
Speaker 3: It wasn't just fed us.
48:16
Speaker 2: You were like you fed us first, and then once
48:18
Speaker 2: we got the hook, then you were like, well you
48:21
Speaker 2: can make it yourself.
48:22
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right.
48:24
Speaker 5: We had a We had kits that you could buy,
48:27
Speaker 5: and it had the We even had the we even
48:29
Speaker 5: dried the millet. We tried it, We cooked it and
48:32
Speaker 5: dried it, and all you had to do was rehydrate
48:34
Speaker 5: it and make your burgers. And so the kit came
48:38
Speaker 5: with the grain, the seasoning package, the oil, the tamori,
48:44
Speaker 5: and all you had to do was just cook your millet.
48:46
Speaker 3: We had instructions in there and you can make your
48:49
Speaker 3: own burgers.
48:50
Speaker 2: I just hope we're hearing entrepreneurship. I'm gonna say it again,
48:54
Speaker 2: entrepreneurship legacy, entreprenur nordship legacy. So see, there's a wealth
49:03
Speaker 2: of information that you all have been central to for decades,
49:08
Speaker 2: not like you just came to this. This isn't like
49:10
Speaker 2: a trendy thing. You all been doing this, you know,
49:14
Speaker 2: I know, before I had children and my eldest is forty.
49:19
Speaker 2: So I'm just saying, it's been a minute that you
49:22
Speaker 2: have been really keeping this going and helping helping people,
49:26
Speaker 2: helping families, communities, you know, ultimately helping nations, you know,
49:32
Speaker 2: and and I'm really just grateful to be able to
49:35
Speaker 2: just give a thread because like I said, this could
49:37
Speaker 2: be a whole series. We're gonna come, We're gonna have
49:40
Speaker 2: that conversation off air because we definitely need to begin
49:44
Speaker 2: to share some of this because there's another generation of
49:49
Speaker 2: youngsters that they desire to know. Of course, they want
49:53
Speaker 2: to do like the techie version, and that's cool, but
49:56
Speaker 2: we want like people to be comfortable that, you know,
49:58
Speaker 2: the technology can only go so far if we continue
50:04
Speaker 2: to feed ourselves, because if we do not feed ourselves,
50:08
Speaker 2: we can't heal ourselves. It's right, we can't heal ourselves.
50:12
Speaker 5: And we have to understand what the foods that are
50:14
Speaker 5: good for us and which ones are harming our bodies
50:17
Speaker 5: and go back to the old ways. You know, mckaya
50:21
Speaker 5: has been having a lot of conversations with me about
50:24
Speaker 5: you know, foods that, like I say, certain foods are inflammatory,
50:28
Speaker 5: you know, like your night shades.
50:30
Speaker 3: You know, we need to ease up off of them.
50:33
Speaker 5: Fried foods just you know, just strobly can just keep
50:38
Speaker 5: it as healthy as possible.
50:40
Speaker 3: Correct to eat.
50:41
Speaker 4: You are what you eat, and some people, you know,
50:43
Speaker 4: just because you're vegetarian, you think you're eating the right foods,
50:49
Speaker 4: you know, because you know I you know, I talked
50:52
Speaker 4: to my nephew and negos, Well it's he goes, there's
50:56
Speaker 4: no need in it.
50:57
Speaker 2: And I was like, I might, right, might have been
51:02
Speaker 2: fried in the same oil with the chicken right next
51:04
Speaker 2: to it. Right there you go.
51:05
Speaker 3: It's some messed up oil too, jacked up oil too.
51:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, that rape seed that can on lake right.
51:12
Speaker 3: You know, And you know, you know I don't have
51:16
Speaker 3: I'm not I look at her.
51:19
Speaker 4: You know, I've been working because we're going through construction
51:22
Speaker 4: and everything, so I don't have I don't have my
51:24
Speaker 4: Sunday go cook my cool roots.
51:26
Speaker 3: Close up.
51:27
Speaker 4: We look listen, but she's in her seventy seven what
51:32
Speaker 4: are you now? Seventy Hey, next week, I'll be seventy seven.
51:35
Speaker 3: Seventy seven.
51:37
Speaker 2: She's a baby. You know, I'm a curry strong and
51:42
Speaker 2: so that's what I'm saying. You know, I'm like you
51:44
Speaker 2: and you all popping them numbers. So I'm just giving thanks,
51:49
Speaker 2: you know, with my little sixty something, and I'm grateful.
51:52
Speaker 2: I'm grateful that I've had to join.
51:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, girl, Yeah, trying.
51:56
Speaker 2: To work with Look at you. We have a legacy
51:59
Speaker 2: to keep. That's when we talk about as we have
52:02
Speaker 2: a legacy to kid and you see it right on
52:04
Speaker 2: the bottom screen, you know, when we're talking about building
52:06
Speaker 2: a new generation. And I'm grateful that that's the other
52:10
Speaker 2: portion of what we're moving towards to be able to
52:14
Speaker 2: let persons know. You know, if you like more information,
52:17
Speaker 2: We've given you some websites. If you are in the
52:19
Speaker 2: California area, make it to San Diego, have an experience,
52:24
Speaker 2: you know, go and engage support, promote, invest in World
52:29
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52:30
Speaker 3: There's a lot that tapping there.
52:31
Speaker 2: It's not only the kitchen even though you're gonna get
52:34
Speaker 2: stuck there for a minute. It smells good and you
52:38
Speaker 2: feel good after you eat. You know sometimes when you
52:41
Speaker 2: eat you get like sluggish. That's not what you feel.
52:45
Speaker 2: You go and you have some wonderful whether the food
52:48
Speaker 2: is live, if the food is prepared, because it's prepared
52:51
Speaker 2: with that love and energy. The combinations are on the point.
52:56
Speaker 2: The quality of the food you don't have to worry about.
52:58
Speaker 2: You don't have to worry about what's in it. Ye're
53:02
Speaker 2: talking about. It's wonderful to go to a place where
53:05
Speaker 2: you don't have to you can just like that some
53:08
Speaker 2: of that.
53:09
Speaker 3: And you're good at oil.
53:10
Speaker 4: So everybody tries to you know, most restaurants they really
53:15
Speaker 4: try to uh be you know Parsevonians with the you know,
53:21
Speaker 4: because they they have they they they have a budget,
53:26
Speaker 4: you know. But you know, we eat the food and
53:29
Speaker 4: I know how the food should be. It and since
53:32
Speaker 4: to tell you I am funny about my food.
53:35
Speaker 3: That's right.
53:37
Speaker 2: All the years all.
53:41
Speaker 4: And people tell you they say, black don't crack, black fracts.
53:48
Speaker 2: Black, don't take care of it, don't take replacement.
53:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why we have diabetes. You know. You know
53:55
Speaker 3: how many people we don't diabetes and eye blood dread,
53:58
Speaker 3: you know, and it's in. We really gotta, you know,
54:02
Speaker 3: start meditating.
54:03
Speaker 6: Not only that, we gotta look at what's what's going
54:06
Speaker 6: on and and and our our minds are, you know,
54:11
Speaker 6: our temple bodies. You know, so you are what you're
54:14
Speaker 6: eating to become what you think so so important that
54:18
Speaker 6: you could do chigong. You know, chigong is so uncott tight,
54:23
Speaker 6: but t chigong to keep those meridians, you know, open
54:27
Speaker 6: and flowing and your chakras, you know, there's chokraate breathing too.
54:33
Speaker 3: And and and then just eat some of the Chinese little.
54:37
Speaker 4: Chinese being to come on the Instagram or so look
54:41
Speaker 4: at some of those those those things that they are tough,
54:46
Speaker 4: those exercise simple and and and you're happening at that
54:54
Speaker 4: chie that cheat energy. What what it's messed up is
54:58
Speaker 4: because we are our cheek gets blocked our energy and
55:03
Speaker 4: and prana or whatever you want to call it. The
55:06
Speaker 4: breath is really important, the breath which connects you to
55:09
Speaker 4: your spirit.
55:10
Speaker 3: So any any.
55:13
Speaker 4: Any breath of exercises that you can do would be
55:17
Speaker 4: is incredible.
55:18
Speaker 3: Let's do let's do a breath real quick. We'll do
55:22
Speaker 3: thank you.
55:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, you could, you could, you could come in and
55:26
Speaker 4: you can you can take.
55:32
Speaker 3: You can take a deep.
55:33
Speaker 4: Breath, you know, and uh and have your and where
55:40
Speaker 4: are you going right away?
55:44
Speaker 3: You said, yeah, yeah, I was gonna do it the
55:49
Speaker 3: sky sky breath. Here you go. That's it, you guys.
55:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, So okay, we're gonna we're gonna do it like
55:57
Speaker 4: three times. We're just gonna show them three times and
55:59
Speaker 4: then you breathe in and did you breathe out? And
56:04
Speaker 4: then your your your hands, you can show them how
56:07
Speaker 4: we're going to do just don't do it yet. Yeah,
56:10
Speaker 4: we're watching two three, then breathe out the end, out
56:18
Speaker 4: and out and out.
56:22
Speaker 3: There you go.
56:23
Speaker 4: So we're gonna do it like three or before ten.
56:25
Speaker 4: Let's do it for okay. Okay, you guys ready set
56:29
Speaker 4: up straight. You are aligning those those chapper those energies,
56:34
Speaker 4: and you're breathing in.
56:35
Speaker 3: See, we don't breathe properly. That's that's one of the things,
56:38
Speaker 3: you know, and we don't take enough hunter, So here
56:43
Speaker 3: we go. So we're.
56:47
Speaker 2: Hey, breathe in.
56:49
Speaker 3: Out yeah yeah, yeah and out and out that's what
57:03
Speaker 3: in and out, you know. So that felt good right there.
57:08
Speaker 2: Man, listeners, Ie, we are doing this, don't just watch
57:11
Speaker 2: and do the that that that this is a participatory session.
57:17
Speaker 4: All right, because the next time we come on, we'll
57:20
Speaker 4: show you how to do the circle breathing. Okay, you'll
57:24
Speaker 4: be doing the circle breathing, slow circle, and then the
57:28
Speaker 4: medium circle breathing and then the past.
57:33
Speaker 3: Right, which I know is fire. Yeah, that's like the
57:37
Speaker 3: breath of fire. You know, that's it. Then you go,
57:40
Speaker 3: you know, we'll go through all them, and you know
57:43
Speaker 3: there's different stages. It's here and then this, this is
57:48
Speaker 3: another stage.
57:49
Speaker 2: Okay, the back.
57:53
Speaker 4: Your lungs are near your back too, so you breathe
57:56
Speaker 4: that way too. So there's a lot of different way
58:00
Speaker 4: he said. But you go to the breath that's so important.
58:03
Speaker 4: And fasting. You know, I was going to stay with
58:07
Speaker 4: but like one just one day or one two or
58:10
Speaker 4: two days a week, you know, And and I've always
58:15
Speaker 4: get on clean, don't eat.
58:19
Speaker 3: Late at night, clean love. I don't know it was
58:23
Speaker 3: black people. They love.
58:26
Speaker 2: That was either about the darkness and the nighttime because
58:30
Speaker 2: then and then they late and then you go to sleep.
58:32
Speaker 3: On it, man, So try not to eat after the
58:37
Speaker 3: sun goes down.
58:39
Speaker 4: It's called daylight, daylight eating, daylight light eating diet, yeah,
58:44
Speaker 4: daylight diet.
58:46
Speaker 3: Yeah.
58:46
Speaker 4: If you could do that, and you know, you could
58:49
Speaker 4: run all your breath exercise and stuff and lately, and
58:53
Speaker 4: I know it's better if you could get up early.
58:57
Speaker 4: And they got a book called I think it's five
59:01
Speaker 4: thirty five thirty, uh, I think five thirty venditation, five
59:08
Speaker 4: thirty diet or something.
59:10
Speaker 3: Because you get everything, you get it early, get all
59:12
Speaker 3: your stuff done early.
59:15
Speaker 4: You get your reading twenty minutes for you yourself and studying,
59:19
Speaker 4: twenty minutes for meditation, and twenty minutes for exercise, right.
59:24
Speaker 2: To at least do that before you go out in
59:26
Speaker 2: the world.
59:26
Speaker 4: Correct, Yeah, because you once you get out, you're not
59:29
Speaker 4: gonna be able to you know, you know, do you
59:32
Speaker 4: run your routine? You don't want through you're reading, you
59:36
Speaker 4: don't did your meditation, you did your exercise, you know
59:40
Speaker 4: for you go out, and you know, did your juicing,
59:44
Speaker 4: you know, be a be a juice bandit, you know,
59:49
Speaker 4: just just do that's so important, you know, because those
59:52
Speaker 4: ensigns go straight into your blood.
59:55
Speaker 3: I'll be it all. Yeah, Well I don't want to.
1:00:00
Speaker 2: I can tell we can go into chapter four and
1:00:03
Speaker 2: we're gonna pause because see how fast that hour went?
1:00:07
Speaker 2: Did you see that fast? And we're just doing the
1:00:10
Speaker 2: little surface, little surface representation. I really would like to
1:00:15
Speaker 2: give my most humble, honorable gratitude to both of you
1:00:24
Speaker 2: for just taking time in the middle of the day
1:00:27
Speaker 2: because where you are, we know that you're a few
1:00:29
Speaker 2: hours earlier than us, and we're just grateful that you
1:00:32
Speaker 2: were able to take a pause in the midst of everything.
1:00:34
Speaker 3: And I know next time you can.
1:00:35
Speaker 2: Do all of your regal royal attires. That'll be next time.
1:00:39
Speaker 2: But I needed people to just know this is how
1:00:42
Speaker 2: we find our sisters. This is how eldresses that lived
1:00:45
Speaker 2: the words that you heard every day for decades in
1:00:51
Speaker 2: the middle of their workday, this is how they flow.
1:00:54
Speaker 2: And I just would like to thank both of you
1:00:56
Speaker 2: and just say, do our mater. I'm very very grateful.
1:00:59
Speaker 2: I'm very very great for having sharing an honor.
1:01:03
Speaker 3: We have more to do. We have more to do.
1:01:05
Speaker 2: I've been we've been working on this for a minute,
1:01:08
Speaker 2: so I'm really grateful. Any closing remarks or any any
1:01:11
Speaker 2: calls to action you like to give our listeners and.
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Speaker 4: Viewers, Well, we have Luciano next week and I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 4: And we do reggae music a lot, you know, so
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Speaker 4: uh and we also do the Girl from Your Island
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Speaker 3: You know, we're the ones that brought you know, all
1:01:38
Speaker 3: the bond is my son, that's right, mother, you know.
1:01:43
Speaker 4: So we've been doing so us a lot of things
1:01:46
Speaker 4: that we do. So tune in to us and take
1:01:48
Speaker 4: care of your body just like you tune a fine instrument.
1:01:52
Speaker 4: Because when you want to get eighty three, you know
1:01:56
Speaker 4: you uh, you know you want to you want to
1:01:59
Speaker 4: be moving and around and also what you know, I'm
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Speaker 4: feeling that. Okay, I know you got to go take
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Speaker 4: care of your knees, your knees, because that's when it
1:02:10
Speaker 4: happened when me get older.
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Speaker 3: So you saw those knees, and take care of your
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Speaker 2: And you, my sister, give that word. That's right.
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Speaker 5: And I remember when I was on think how proactive
1:02:26
Speaker 5: you were with your diet, and I just want to
1:02:28
Speaker 5: say that I was very impressed with the way you
1:02:32
Speaker 5: moved and how you ate.
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Speaker 3: So I know that you know a lot.
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Speaker 2: Good thanks, it's honor. You all given a lot of
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