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- 0:01Speaker 1: The talk of years.
- 0:01Speaker 2: That really got me so interested in what your message.
- 0:05Speaker 3: Is is your four I think it's titled the four
- 0:09Speaker 3: Types of Black Americans. Yeah, I'd love for you to
- 0:14Speaker 3: share a little bit about that.
- 0:16Speaker 2: Here with me. So what are the four types?
- 0:19Speaker 1: Blacks, Negroes, niggas, niggas. So the first group being blacks,
- 0:26Speaker 1: like I said, hard working, honest, We as black people,
- 0:30Speaker 1: it's only twenty percent of the population. We know exactly
- 0:36Speaker 1: where we want to go. We don't want to be
- 0:38Speaker 1: represented by the negative aspects of our culture and our community. Niggas.
- 0:42Speaker 1: We don't want to be represented by that doesn't matter
- 0:45Speaker 1: if they're a Republican Democrat, doesn't matter if they're rich
- 0:48Speaker 1: or poor. They don't want to be represented by a
- 0:50Speaker 1: culture that's toxic. They don't want to be represented by
- 0:53Speaker 1: people who are taking advantage of them. They want to
- 0:57Speaker 1: We as black people, we want to be represented by
- 1:00Speaker 1: those who are gonna be in our interests and support
- 1:03Speaker 1: us as a people and drive us forward as a people. So,
- 1:07Speaker 1: like I said, it's you know, you're you're average black
- 1:09Speaker 1: person that speaks well, hard working, you know, god loving,
- 1:13Speaker 1: country loving. They're not gonna sit back and blame someone
- 1:15Speaker 1: for their shortcomings, complain about, oh, you know, well, I
- 1:19Speaker 1: can't get by because of something that happened uh a
- 1:21Speaker 1: century before they existed. No, they're motivated to do more
- 1:26Speaker 1: with what they have and build upon that.
- 1:28Speaker 2: I mean, we live in America.
- 1:29Speaker 1: What the fuck? I'm a black American. I could be
- 1:33Speaker 1: somewhere in in and gol I can be somewhere in Zimbabwe.
- 1:35Speaker 1: That's a different experience, and broadly that's black in the
- 1:39Speaker 1: in the whole sense, right, But a black American and
- 1:42Speaker 1: African is completely different. We have the greatest amount of
- 1:45Speaker 1: opportunity and wealth and we don't do anything with it.
- 1:49Speaker 1: But black people like myself, they're twenty percent. We're not
- 1:53Speaker 1: gonna sit back and keep our heads now. We're gona
- 1:54Speaker 1: keep our heads forward and keep it high cause we
- 1:57Speaker 1: know exactly where we're gonna go and what we're gonna do.
- 2:00Speaker 2: That's the first part.
- 2:02Speaker 1: The first group not looking for a shortcut. No, no shortcuts,
- 2:05Speaker 1: no handouts, none of that. I don't want reparations, the
- 2:08Speaker 1: greatest reparations package that I'm here in this country. I
- 2:11Speaker 1: can prosper, I can live, I can exist. I'm not
- 2:14Speaker 1: in Africa, where the entire economic and social conditions are different.
- 2:19Speaker 1: I'm not somewhere in the Caribbean where you know, it's
- 2:21Speaker 1: close to America, but even with that, the economic and
- 2:24Speaker 1: social conditions are different. I'm in the United States where
- 2:27Speaker 1: my ancestors were enslaved. But guess what, they overcame it
- 2:32Speaker 1: and I exist today. And I exist today because of them,
- 2:35Speaker 1: because of their resilience, because of their sacrifice, because they
- 2:39Speaker 1: kept their heads high believing that in the future black
- 2:43Speaker 1: men and women will be free and we all as
- 2:46Speaker 1: Americans will be free to do as we feel necessary
- 2:49Speaker 1: to do for our own existence, for our own survival.
- 2:53Speaker 1: So that's the first group, that's the twenty percent of
- 2:55Speaker 1: the black community, the the blacks right there. And the
- 2:59Speaker 1: second group, my favorite, the house negro. My favorite cause
- 3:03Speaker 1: that's that's a interesting when you get into that, the
- 3:07Speaker 1: modern day house negro, they would say, people who don't
- 3:10Speaker 1: like me would say, I am you know, I'm a coon,
- 3:11Speaker 1: I'm an Uncle Tom, I'm a house Negro. No, the
- 3:15Speaker 1: people that really are are both Democrat and republic This
- 3:17Speaker 1: is more of the politics conversation and more of the
- 3:19Speaker 1: the power economics, uh class. Within the black community. You
- 3:25Speaker 1: have black Democrats and the majority Black people vote Democrat,
- 3:30Speaker 1: and you have the Black Conservative, the Black Republican, which
- 3:33Speaker 1: I fall into that category. But I'm my own thing,
- 3:37Speaker 1: you know, I really don't subscribe to a political party.
- 3:39Speaker 1: I love my country, I love my people, and I
- 3:42Speaker 1: don't want us to prosper.
- 3:43Speaker 2: That's all it matters to me.
- 3:44Speaker 1: I don't really care about the f if the Republican
- 3:46Speaker 1: Party wins the mid terms, I don't really care if
- 3:48Speaker 1: if I have a Republican president. I care about if
- 3:50Speaker 1: I have a leader that can represent us as Americans,
- 3:53Speaker 1: and of of course, me being black, I want someone
- 3:55Speaker 1: who can serve the interests in black people. If I
- 3:57Speaker 1: if I was white, I want the same thing. So
- 4:01Speaker 1: it's a very interesting conversation when you get into the
- 4:05Speaker 1: difference and how they're really similar both Democrat Republican Black.
- 4:11Speaker 1: The Black Republican will sit back and tell you, especially now,
- 4:15Speaker 1: they're very pro Israel, they're very pro establishment, and they
- 4:18Speaker 1: don't really talk about the black issues.
- 4:21Speaker 2: Because many of them are country blacks.
- 4:24Speaker 1: They never really had to live around the nigga shit,
- 4:27Speaker 1: the nigga culture, which niga culture is Black Black culture
- 4:30Speaker 1: is nigga culture. They never had to live around that
- 4:33Speaker 1: or there are black kids who lived in suburbia. You know,
- 4:35Speaker 1: they went to night schools, they may have gone to
- 4:37Speaker 1: you know, the HBCUs and they got bullied as black
- 4:40Speaker 1: liberals and became conservative because they didn't want to be
- 4:44Speaker 1: left out, because they didn't want to be a part
- 4:46Speaker 1: of a you know, not without a group. They didn't
- 4:48Speaker 1: want to be considered Oh you know, I'm alone. They
- 4:50Speaker 1: couldn't do the thinking, the critical thinking to build their
- 4:53Speaker 1: own worldview and build their own identity, so they need
- 4:55Speaker 1: another group to fall into. So that I despise them
- 4:59Speaker 1: the most because they're the closest thing to me in
- 5:01Speaker 1: terms of ideologically, in terms of voting, and they do
- 5:06Speaker 1: a great disservice in trying to provide a viable alternative
- 5:10Speaker 1: vote socially and economically for black people. The black Democrat,
- 5:14Speaker 1: I mean he is. I can respect him because he
- 5:18Speaker 1: understands exactly what he believes, as much as I disagree.
- 5:22Speaker 1: One is griffing the Black Republican, the black conservative. The
- 5:26Speaker 1: black Democrats are stupid, that's it. And stupid. All that
- 5:30Speaker 1: means is you know, you know better, you're just choosing
- 5:32Speaker 1: not to do better. They'll sit back and sell the
- 5:35Speaker 1: poisonous lie that black people are oppressed, that you know,
- 5:39Speaker 1: it's the white man's fault, that you know, all get
- 5:42Speaker 1: a war forever to be victims, and they capitalize on
- 5:45Speaker 1: that black pain and that black lack of drive, lack
- 5:50Speaker 1: of purpose in order to win elections. Biggest example Jasmin Crockett.
- 5:54Speaker 1: I was telling somebody this on the street. Jasmin Crockett,
- 5:58Speaker 1: she didn't come from the get 'em. She didn't come
- 6:00Speaker 1: from a a poor background. She went to law school,
- 6:03Speaker 1: she had a to a parent household. She's not somebody
- 6:07Speaker 1: that came from the bottom. But when she gets on TV,
- 6:09Speaker 1: she'll put on this act and she'll start talking and
- 6:11Speaker 1: snapping and trying to act like the the average black
- 6:13Speaker 1: women from you know, Compton, or from you know, from Detroit,
- 6:18Speaker 1: or from Richmond, or from anywhere you can name pronominately black.
- 6:21Speaker 1: It's like, you don't come from that, So why are
- 6:23Speaker 1: you trying to pretend to be that? Why are you
- 6:25Speaker 1: trying to Cause they wanna sell and they got identity
- 6:28Speaker 1: to win people who don't know, who are not informed,
- 6:31Speaker 1: who are not educated on the current political conversation or
- 6:37Speaker 1: current events.
- 6:38Speaker 2: In order to win.
- 6:40Speaker 1: It's no different than what we see with immigration, what
- 6:43Speaker 1: we see with so many different things. Do we have
- 6:45Speaker 1: any elite that will use the bottom of the useful
- 6:49Speaker 1: idiots as a means to get what they want with immigration?
- 6:53Speaker 1: I mean, people have always been coming to this country.
- 6:55Speaker 1: People are always gonna come to this country. But both partiers
- 6:58Speaker 1: to use immigration as a to maintain economic power. Republicans
- 7:02Speaker 1: do that and the Democrats voting power. It's not good
- 7:06Speaker 1: for us as a country. It's not good for me
- 7:08Speaker 1: as a black person, not good for any white person.
- 7:11Speaker 1: Nobody's saying that people can't come here. But when we
- 7:13Speaker 1: have people pouring into our country, what does they do economically?
- 7:16Speaker 1: What does they do culturally? What does it do to
- 7:18Speaker 1: the demographics of this country? That's not a good thing.
- 7:21Speaker 1: We want people to have better lives, we want people
- 7:23Speaker 1: to prosper. But if I'm not able to eat, if
- 7:28Speaker 1: I'm not able to get a job, if I'm not able,
- 7:29Speaker 1: if most of our generation is gonna be working two
- 7:32Speaker 1: jobs just to get by, they're having their first kid,
- 7:35Speaker 1: they're struggling economically, they they're up their neck into debt.
- 7:39Speaker 1: Why are we letting people in when we can't even
- 7:41Speaker 1: take care of our own. That doesn't make any sense,
- 7:44Speaker 1: But both parties they benefit from that. And then going
- 7:47Speaker 1: back to the black thing, both Democrat and Republican benefit
- 7:50Speaker 1: from black Republicans not acknowledging the problem, talking about it
- 7:55Speaker 1: from afar and being the useful opposition, and then the
- 7:58Speaker 1: black Democrat feeding off that black pain and pinning one
- 8:03Speaker 1: against each other one. Really, this is a class thing. Honestly,
- 8:06Speaker 1: it's a class thing. And that's that's controversial with someone
- 8:09Speaker 1: on the right to say that. To talk about classes
- 8:11Speaker 1: usually usually it's a left lean anything. But who cares
- 8:14Speaker 1: about right and left? It's more about what is beneficial
- 8:17Speaker 1: for us as Americans and as a whole, and what
- 8:21Speaker 1: is the third group niggas? Sixty percent, sixty percent of
- 8:28Speaker 1: the black communities filled with niggas, loud, ghetto, argumentative, entitled uh.
- 8:35Speaker 1: I've said as many times it really comes from the
- 8:38Speaker 1: black gen gen xers. And so there's a generational element
- 8:41Speaker 1: that comes into that. That's a big problem. You know,
- 8:45Speaker 1: they walk around with the chip on their shoulder. Somebody
- 8:46Speaker 1: owes me something, Nobody owes you anything. Nobody owes you
- 8:51Speaker 1: anything other than a blanket when you're born, taxes, when
- 8:54Speaker 1: you're living in a coffin when you did. That's it.
- 8:56Speaker 1: That's the three things you're get in life. That's it.
- 8:58Speaker 1: And right now I got the blanket and I'm paying
- 9:00Speaker 1: the taxes and we did yet I don't know about
- 9:02Speaker 1: the coffin, so we were pretty good. All right. That's it.
- 9:05Speaker 1: That's the only things I've been given. And that's it.
- 9:08Speaker 1: But niggas will be not violent, but very aggressive in
- 9:15Speaker 1: the rhetoric and the way they operate. And it's hard
- 9:19Speaker 1: to really say this, but someone needs to say it
- 9:21Speaker 1: because that's how we are. Stereotypes exist for a reason.
- 9:24Speaker 1: They don't exist because someone just put them on. They
- 9:27Speaker 1: exist because it's examination of behavior. Today's racism isn't I
- 9:33Speaker 1: don't like you because you're different. That's you know, one
- 9:35Speaker 1: hundred years ago, when the world wasn't so interconnected that
- 9:37Speaker 1: you didn't have a vast means of travel by land,
- 9:41Speaker 1: by sea, by air, no one really saw, you know,
- 9:44Speaker 1: when that black person looked like and only a few
- 9:46Speaker 1: people did. No one saw what an Asian looked like.
- 9:47Speaker 1: Only a few people did, so was very new. But
- 9:49Speaker 1: today's racism is more your behavior's poor, acting like a nigga.
- 9:53Speaker 2: I don't like that.
- 9:55Speaker 1: This is unbecoming of what the standard is and the
- 9:57Speaker 1: civilized society. We don't want this in our societ.
- 10:01Speaker 2: That's what it is today.
- 10:02Speaker 1: And when you tell black people that, they get mad
- 10:04Speaker 1: and say, nah, they just being racist. Okay, what's racism?
- 10:08Speaker 1: There's nothing systematically holding you back. You just don't like
- 10:11Speaker 1: you being called out for your actions. So niggas will
- 10:14Speaker 1: sit back and get plain. And then there's there's a
- 10:18Speaker 1: reason for why I do it. There's a reason for
- 10:19Speaker 1: why I make the content and I do is a
- 10:21Speaker 1: reason for why I speak the way I do, cause
- 10:22Speaker 1: it's it's really to piss them off. You gotta piss
- 10:25Speaker 1: them off, cause I will not be represented. I will
- 10:29Speaker 1: I will not sit back as twenty as a twenty
- 10:31Speaker 1: five year old. I will not sit back in twenty
- 10:34Speaker 1: years and have somebody that's twenty or twenty five coming
- 10:39Speaker 1: to me and saying you failed and we are worse off,
- 10:43Speaker 1: or even the problems that still exist, they persist in
- 10:48Speaker 1: their worse than when you started. I won't sit back
- 10:52Speaker 1: and allow that to be made. So that's niggas, and
- 10:57Speaker 1: then niggas the the the no no word. You can't
- 11:02Speaker 1: say that one, Well, we're saying it because someone needs
- 11:05Speaker 1: to say it. It's a harsh one and I know
- 11:07Speaker 1: it's very uncomfortable for people because there's a historical context
- 11:10Speaker 1: to the the term. You know, I can't sit back
- 11:13Speaker 1: and you know completely just disregard that. But the reason
- 11:17Speaker 1: for why it do is because you have to separate
- 11:20Speaker 1: and I'm I'm big on segregation in the black community.
- 11:22Speaker 1: You have to separate black people from the niggas and niggers.
- 11:26Speaker 2: You have to.
- 11:27Speaker 1: You've got to do that. The mind of the house
- 11:29Speaker 1: n house negro is gonna be man they play. He
- 11:31Speaker 1: completely will be xed out because he feeds off of,
- 11:34Speaker 1: he enables the behavior of the niggas and niggers. He does.
- 11:37Speaker 1: He doesn't wanna work with the black person because the
- 11:39Speaker 1: black person is going in his own direction and he
- 11:40Speaker 1: can't make money off that. But the niggas and niggers
- 11:44Speaker 1: he can make money off that. But niggers are very
- 11:46Speaker 1: uh I'm honestly. The drug dealers, the murderers, the rapists,
- 11:50Speaker 1: the people you see on the five o'clock news, you know,
- 11:52Speaker 1: they've got a long, extensive criminal history. In some cases
- 11:59Speaker 1: they've been neglected. You know, you gotta acknowledge that fact
- 12:02Speaker 1: that there's a lot of neglect in the black community
- 12:04Speaker 1: when it comes to crime and mental health, but mainly
- 12:07Speaker 1: it's it done by culture. We glorify a culture of violence,
- 12:10Speaker 1: we glorify a culture of dysfunction. We're coming from households
- 12:14Speaker 1: that are dysfunctional. We're coming from households that are completely
- 12:18Speaker 1: there's no father and really there's no mother at all.
- 12:20Speaker 1: There's just people who oversee, get them to school, maybe
- 12:23Speaker 1: feed them every now and again. Nobody exists in the
- 12:25Speaker 1: household for Black children today, especially my generation, the biggest
- 12:30Speaker 1: generation of neglected abuse.
- 12:35Speaker 2: What do we do about this?
- 12:39Speaker 1: So this goes into what I was saying before about
- 12:41Speaker 1: the reason for why I piss off niggas. There's three
- 12:45Speaker 1: reasons for what I why I do what I do. One,
- 12:48Speaker 1: as I said, pissed off niggas to make them feel comfortable,
- 12:51Speaker 1: to make them feel angry. I want them to feel isolated,
- 12:55Speaker 1: cause there are time, this culture, this identity, it's going on.
- 13:00Speaker 2: We're no longer going to have it.
- 13:02Speaker 1: So to piss them off. The second they have conversations
- 13:07Speaker 1: with black people who may not like my delivery, who
- 13:11Speaker 1: don't like the way that I called out, but understand
- 13:14Speaker 1: it can relate to what I'm talking about. I like
- 13:17Speaker 1: to have conversations with those people in good eighty percent
- 13:19Speaker 1: of time, they always come out on my side and agree, Okay,
- 13:22Speaker 1: I see what you're saying. I just don't like the
- 13:23Speaker 1: way you're going about it. He may not like the
- 13:25Speaker 1: way I'm going about it, but you shouldn't like the
- 13:27Speaker 1: way you're being represented by these people. You shouldn't like
- 13:30Speaker 1: the fact that people are pushing this element, pushing this
- 13:34Speaker 1: existence and profiting off of him, both in our community
- 13:37Speaker 1: and outside of our community. You should be more angry
- 13:41Speaker 1: at that, not the way that I'm calling it out.
- 13:44Speaker 1: And then, finally, to motivate black people, I don't really
- 13:47Speaker 1: care about your politics. Don't care of your Democrat or Republican.
- 13:51Speaker 1: I'm right wing, far right, whatever you want to call me.
- 13:54Speaker 1: I care more about you being an American. I care
- 13:56Speaker 1: more about you being a productive American. That's gonna add
- 14:01Speaker 1: to this country. It's gonna contribute to our community, contribute
- 14:03Speaker 1: to our our civilization. So if you're tired of being
- 14:08Speaker 1: represented by these people you don't wanna be, you need
- 14:10Speaker 1: to speak up. I do this to make people speak up,
- 14:13Speaker 1: to encourage them to speak up against us every day.
- 14:17Speaker 1: That's the goal and how we fix it really crime, education,
- 14:21Speaker 1: the family. It's three things. You gotta fix those things.
- 14:25Speaker 1: You gotta focus on the schools Black children, and they're
- 14:29Speaker 1: not reading at the grade level that they should be. The
- 14:31Speaker 1: SAT scores are underperforming. There's some black schools and some
- 14:35Speaker 1: Black yearas and when they're doing very well, but in
- 14:37Speaker 1: majority it's not so well, and it hasn't been for
- 14:39Speaker 1: the last thirty years. It's improved slightly, but still it
- 14:44Speaker 1: shouldn't be at the level for a people that's been
- 14:46Speaker 1: in this country. We talk about the foreigner years we've
- 14:48Speaker 1: been in this country and slavery, well, we bear foreigner years.
- 14:50Speaker 1: We should be at the same level as white people
- 14:52Speaker 1: in this country in terms of academically, in terms of
- 14:56Speaker 1: economically and influence. We do it influence, but at academically
- 15:00Speaker 1: we shouldn't be at the bottom. Native Americans are at
- 15:03Speaker 1: the bottom. That's what they are statistically, and we know
- 15:07Speaker 1: the historical conditions of them. They've gone through far worse.
- 15:10Speaker 1: Black people have gotten far more than the Native Americans have.
- 15:14Speaker 1: You know, all right, gods, casinos, that's it black people got,
- 15:16Speaker 1: you know, from reaction HBCUs TV companies, everything, everything, and
- 15:24Speaker 1: yet we do nothing. So education very important. And then crime,
- 15:28Speaker 1: we gotta be tough on crime. No more letting you
- 15:32Speaker 1: know somebody with multiple they've been in and out of jail.
- 15:35Speaker 1: We've got to be very tough on crime. When it
- 15:37Speaker 1: comes to the death penalty before the death pende. When
- 15:39Speaker 1: it comes to murderers, rapists, honestly, people selling drugs, hardcore
- 15:42Speaker 1: drugs that are poisonous to the America, to the American family,
- 15:46Speaker 1: to the black family. I'm not talking about marijuana, I'm
- 15:48Speaker 1: not talking about psychedelics. I'm talking about you know, heroin, fentanyl.
- 15:54Speaker 1: That's a very common thing that's glorified in the music,
- 15:57Speaker 1: in the media, and it's been like that for the
- 15:59Speaker 1: last thirty forty years and crack yeah, and look what
- 16:04Speaker 1: it's doing to this country. Look what it's doing to
- 16:06Speaker 1: black people. It's looking it's doing to everybody. Mainly we're
- 16:09Speaker 1: talking about us. We want to sit back and we're
- 16:13Speaker 1: looking at the results of it's not good. So we've
- 16:15Speaker 1: got to be very tough on that. I'm very a
- 16:17Speaker 1: big advocate for the deaf POM when it comes to
- 16:19Speaker 1: drug dealers, murderers, and rapists, really and I'm for rehabilitation.
- 16:24Speaker 1: It has to be a balance of ball. It just
- 16:26Speaker 1: can't be one or the other, because you're not just
- 16:27Speaker 1: gonna solve the problem with a blanketed solution. It's got
- 16:30Speaker 1: to be some gray area, some nuance to it.
- 16:34Speaker 2: And I'm all for that.
- 16:35Speaker 1: Rehabilitation is necessary for those who want to be rehabilitated
- 16:38Speaker 1: and provide them with a way of getting out. But
- 16:41Speaker 1: for those who don't just want to glorify their lifestyle,
- 16:44Speaker 1: what can we do for them? Why am I gonna
- 16:45Speaker 1: say it and pay for you to live twenty thirty
- 16:47Speaker 1: years and you've done this to a family. Their daughter's going,
- 16:52Speaker 1: you know, the breadwinner, and their families go on and
- 16:54Speaker 1: you get to sit back and live and you know
- 16:56Speaker 1: they're no longer there, or they got that trauma, that
- 16:57Speaker 1: trauma from this abuse that you put on them.
- 17:00Speaker 2: I'm not for that. I can't.
- 17:01Speaker 1: I can't sit back. I think that's more. I think
- 17:03Speaker 1: that's just a great disservice on that family and that
- 17:05Speaker 1: victim to let these people continually go on.
- 17:07Speaker 2: I just not for that. Do you feel like you
- 17:10Speaker 2: feel like things are getting better or getting worse? For
- 17:13Speaker 2: the community, things.
- 17:15Speaker 1: Are getting worse, Things are getting worse, but things have
- 17:19Speaker 1: to get worse in order for it to get better.
- 17:22Speaker 1: Over All the countries is getting worse, but things have
- 17:24Speaker 1: to get worse in order for things to get better.
- 17:26Speaker 1: No matter what, what.
- 17:32Speaker 2: Do you think of Black History Month, get rid of it.
- 17:37Speaker 1: I'm an American, right, I'm not Black History. It's like, Okay,
- 17:41Speaker 1: if I'm living in Zimbabwe, We're gonna have Black History Month.
- 17:43Speaker 1: But no, I'm living in the United States. I don't
- 17:45Speaker 1: need a.
- 17:45Speaker 2: Month for me. I'm an American.
- 17:48Speaker 1: I'm want an American History Month. I think every week,
- 17:51Speaker 1: you know, if we're gonna do February, each week, we
- 17:53Speaker 1: should talk about a certain set of individuals we have someone.
- 17:57Speaker 1: We would have a a very long in a way,
- 18:00Speaker 1: we would never run out of content or run out
- 18:02Speaker 1: of of people we could talk about in American history.
- 18:05Speaker 1: But I don't want to be reduced to just a month.
- 18:07Speaker 1: I don't want my identity and existence to be just
- 18:09Speaker 1: putting in just a few days.
- 18:11Speaker 2: I don't want that. I don't need it.
- 18:14Speaker 1: I'm a Black American, I'm an American living in this country.
- 18:18Speaker 1: American history is Black history. Black history is American history.
- 18:24Speaker 1: You did interesting talk recently about black fatigue. Yeah, I did.
- 18:31Speaker 3: You want to you want to share some of that
- 18:32Speaker 3: the debate or just the video, Well just what you
- 18:36Speaker 3: thought of I mean.
- 18:38Speaker 1: Just is in black fatigue and jail, Okay, I mean
- 18:41Speaker 1: black black fatigue exists for a reason. It's a collective
- 18:45Speaker 1: tiredness that everyone has of black people's poor behavior. It's
- 18:49Speaker 1: all it is. It's not like I said, it's not
- 18:51Speaker 1: you know, we hate black people because they're black. It's
- 18:55Speaker 1: you're behaving poorly. This is not something that we want
- 18:58Speaker 1: in a modern society. We're getting tired of the complaining,
- 19:01Speaker 1: the entitleednesstership on your shoulder. Do something, be productive, or
- 19:06Speaker 1: get out. And that's really the option, that's honestly the
- 19:10Speaker 1: option for black people to either we do better and
- 19:13Speaker 1: we work together, or we get out all this anti
- 19:16Speaker 1: white you know, all we hate white people because they're
- 19:18Speaker 1: white and because of the the slavery, and then they
- 19:21Speaker 1: always come over like these fucking magical stories, these Disney
- 19:24Speaker 1: Channel stories about they were eating us and all this
- 19:26Speaker 1: other shit, and when you look the stuff up that
- 19:28Speaker 1: none of that should happen. And the stories of abuse
- 19:31Speaker 1: on the plantations widely are fictional or exaggerated. Nobody's saying
- 19:38Speaker 1: that there was no abuse. No one was saying that
- 19:40Speaker 1: slavery was like you know, Disneyland. Nobody's saying that. But
- 19:43Speaker 1: a lot of stuff is made up to keep black
- 19:45Speaker 1: people in this mindset of these people are the enemy.
- 19:48Speaker 1: White people are the enemy, and we can never be
- 19:50Speaker 1: unified and we can never be a part of America.
- 19:52Speaker 1: And the stuff going on with the war. Right now,
- 19:54Speaker 1: we're hearing black people saying, well, l they can, they
- 19:57Speaker 1: better be attacking America because black people ain't a part
- 19:59Speaker 1: of that different. What the fuck are you talking about.
- 20:01Speaker 1: We live in the same household. It's like if they
- 20:03Speaker 1: shoot up the house, everybody in the house is getting hit.
- 20:05Speaker 1: It's not well, you know what, make sure the bullets
- 20:07Speaker 1: hit this side of the house, cause we're gonna be
- 20:09Speaker 1: on this side. Nig could. Come on, let's be real now,
- 20:14Speaker 1: we live in this country. This is us, this is ours.
- 20:17Speaker 1: We need to work together build upon it because we
- 20:21Speaker 1: just sit back and get playing bitch and mom. White
- 20:23Speaker 1: people can get tired, and they're they're getting tired, and
- 20:25Speaker 1: rightfully so.
- 20:26Speaker 2: And I don't blame them.
- 20:28Speaker 1: I'd be tired too. If my roommate is being unproductive
- 20:31Speaker 1: and always like talking should and bitching and moaning. You know,
- 20:35Speaker 1: so it's either we do better we get out.
- 20:41Speaker 3: Do you think, uh, slavery is something that black people
- 20:44Speaker 3: like to can like they still bring it up today,
- 20:47Speaker 3: or they still have the attitude of like, you know.
- 20:50Speaker 1: Slavery is a choice. It's a choice mentally, we choose
- 20:56Speaker 1: to sit back and live in this box and we
- 20:59Speaker 1: don't have to. Nobody's forcing this too, well, there is,
- 21:03Speaker 1: but really nobody's forcing this too. The people who are
- 21:07Speaker 1: are our own people and also external elements into that,
- 21:11Speaker 1: but it's mainly our own people who profit from it.
- 21:14Speaker 1: So they bring up the slavery ships, like slavery was
- 21:16Speaker 1: common all over the world, and they just want to
- 21:19Speaker 1: blame white people for it. I mean, are we gonna
- 21:21Speaker 1: acknowledge the fact that black people sold, you know, Africans
- 21:23Speaker 1: sold Black Americans into slavery. The Jews had involvement in
- 21:26Speaker 1: the slave slave trade, Arabs have still a large involvement
- 21:30Speaker 1: in the slave trade still.
- 21:32Speaker 2: To this day.
- 21:32Speaker 1: We're gonna we're ever gonna acknowledge that. No, they don't
- 21:34Speaker 1: wanna do that, especially on the topic of Jews.
- 21:37Speaker 2: They never want to do that. They never want to
- 21:38Speaker 2: have that conversation.
- 21:42Speaker 3: I get edit this together. You know, I probably do
- 21:45Speaker 3: some of that here. What what what topic can I
- 21:48Speaker 3: bring up that'll give you something you want to talk
- 21:50Speaker 3: about now? Because you covered those little questions I brought
- 21:54Speaker 3: up perfectly. The civil rights movement. That's my biggest thing.
- 21:58Speaker 1: I really gotta we got to talk about the civil
- 22:01Speaker 1: rights movement and how that was really not for black people,
- 22:03Speaker 1: just wasn't. And I'm I've got to work on pushing
- 22:06Speaker 1: this a little bit more, getting it, you know, putting
- 22:09Speaker 1: out a video, putting out more. I hate to really
- 22:10Speaker 1: say content because I'm I don't do this to make content.
- 22:13Speaker 1: I do this because this is a duty of service.
- 22:15Speaker 1: I can walk away from this. I don't have to
- 22:16Speaker 1: do this at all. What do you think of Martin
- 22:19Speaker 1: Luther King? You know my grandfather hated Martin Luther King,
- 22:25Speaker 1: really did. Yeah, my grandfather was a big on segregation.
- 22:30Speaker 1: He was not for integration. And the reason that, like
- 22:33Speaker 1: I said, it's very uncomfortable to have like these conversations
- 22:35Speaker 1: and public as people like, what do you mean you're
- 22:37Speaker 1: for segregation?
- 22:40Speaker 2: One?
- 22:40Speaker 1: People naturally segregate. We see this in every high school
- 22:44Speaker 1: lunch room. We see this at every party. You know,
- 22:46Speaker 1: there's a reason for why there's black clubs, and you know,
- 22:48Speaker 1: you go on white parties and now there's white clubs.
- 22:50Speaker 1: There's there's gay clubs, there's everything. Everyone wants to be
- 22:52Speaker 1: around their own people. You know, if you go on
- 22:54Speaker 1: a part of an Arab part of town or a
- 22:56Speaker 1: Hispanic part of time, they're gonna want to hang around
- 22:58Speaker 1: their own And that's fine. People naturally do that. They've
- 23:00Speaker 1: been doing it for since humans have existed and since
- 23:04Speaker 1: we've come in contact with each other. We still operate
- 23:06Speaker 1: in that way. And it's always gonna operate in that way. Now,
- 23:08Speaker 1: are we always gonna come together in the middle? We do.
- 23:12Speaker 1: That's something we'd actually do. Hey, I wanna go hang
- 23:14Speaker 1: around these people. That's fine, there's nothing wrong with that.
- 23:16Speaker 1: But people naturally want to be with their own. So
- 23:19Speaker 1: what Martin Luther King push was integration. And look at
- 23:23Speaker 1: the result. The schools are integrated schools, Uh, black children
- 23:28Speaker 1: still perform poorly. You know, now they have access to
- 23:31Speaker 1: the white schools and the white literature and the white resources,
- 23:34Speaker 1: and guess what, the kids are still performing below the
- 23:37Speaker 1: standard When they weren't integrated. The schools were better look
- 23:41Speaker 1: at it. Everything when it came to integration is going down.
- 23:45Speaker 1: For black people in this country. Things haven't gotten better.
- 23:48Speaker 1: I'm not saying that we need to have a separate
- 23:50Speaker 1: water fountains and you know, get on the back of
- 23:52Speaker 1: the bus. We're not saying that. But it's more of
- 23:55Speaker 1: freedom of association. If you white and you wanna be
- 23:57Speaker 1: around white people, fine, Martin Luther King's entire movement was
- 24:00Speaker 1: not genuine and was not for the betterment of black people.
- 24:05Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with for.
- 24:06Speaker 2: The betterment of Jews.
- 24:08Speaker 1: To seventy five percent of the funding mainly came from Jews.
- 24:11Speaker 1: Fifty percent of lawyers mainly Jews. Stanley Levinson, you know,
- 24:16Speaker 1: had a lot of influence over his speeches and it
- 24:18Speaker 1: was a great advisor and friend to Martin Luther King. Jew.
- 24:22Speaker 1: Now people love to bring up the communist element. I
- 24:24Speaker 1: don't care about the communist element. You know, that's like
- 24:27Speaker 1: this isn't the Cold War. I don't care about that.
- 24:29Speaker 1: But when you bring up the Jewish aspect of how
- 24:34Speaker 1: they had so much influence over the Civil rights movement,
- 24:37Speaker 1: it was mainly for their own interests, for their own benefit,
- 24:39Speaker 1: and they would tell black people, you know, we're the
- 24:41Speaker 1: good whites. You know, we're the good ones. What I
- 24:44Speaker 1: like the ones over there. But we look at the
- 24:48Speaker 1: financial discrimination. Who owned the banks, who procured the loans.
- 24:52Speaker 1: You know, when it comes to red lining, Black people
- 24:54Speaker 1: always love to bring up red lining and blame white
- 24:56Speaker 1: people for it. I mean, who was in charge of
- 24:58Speaker 1: much of that, who had a lot of stake with him?
- 25:00Speaker 1: Real estate? Black, I mean Jews, Jews. I'm not saying
- 25:05Speaker 1: it's because I have a hatred towards Jews. It's more
- 25:07Speaker 1: of I want people to be held accountable. We've been
- 25:10Speaker 1: holding white people accountable. Oh you got to sit back
- 25:12Speaker 1: and slavery, slavery, slavery, Jim Crawl, you did this. Okay,
- 25:17Speaker 1: we're tired of hearing about that. Now it's black fatigue, niggas.
- 25:19Speaker 1: You guys are really ruining the country. Shanequis, stop yelling,
- 25:22Speaker 1: and Walmart, come on, do better accountability. For some reason,
- 25:30Speaker 1: the moment you start telling Jews to hold themselves accountable
- 25:32Speaker 1: and to hold them accountable for their actions, that's anti semitic.
- 25:35Speaker 1: That's gonna lead to another hall of costs. We can't
- 25:37Speaker 1: do that. And the one thing that they fear, the
- 25:39Speaker 1: one thing that a lot of Jews within power hate.
- 25:42Speaker 1: You're seeing black people speak up on this topic. Look
- 25:46Speaker 1: what they've done. The Canas owns. I'm not a big
- 25:48Speaker 1: fan of Cannas, you know, I think she's in airhead,
- 25:51Speaker 1: but you know, I like her for what she represents.
- 25:54Speaker 1: She got her start working with Peger. You she got
- 25:56Speaker 1: her start working with TPU, not TPUs A, but say
- 26:00Speaker 1: she was one of the the big part of that.
- 26:03Speaker 1: But bleckxit out with the Daily Wire with Benchbrow. She
- 26:06Speaker 1: was surrounded and brought up by Jews the moment that
- 26:09Speaker 1: she started talking a different tunes, singing a different tune. Well,
- 26:13Speaker 1: we've got to cancel Candice, We've got.
- 26:15Speaker 2: To get rid of her. Why is it that?
- 26:18Speaker 1: Because to find out who rules, you figure out who
- 26:24Speaker 1: you cannot criticize. Look at who you cannot criticize. And
- 26:27Speaker 1: that's a big problem. We're seeing that right now. And
- 26:29Speaker 1: it's I want the Jewish community to be held accountable
- 26:32Speaker 1: for their actions, you know, I want them to be
- 26:33Speaker 1: able to I want us to be able to all
- 26:36Speaker 1: if we're fucked up and we're doing an injustice, we're
- 26:39Speaker 1: doing wrong, actually be able to call it out as
- 26:42Speaker 1: much as I can call out white people as much
- 26:44Speaker 1: as white people can call out black people, I think
- 26:45Speaker 1: that's fair. For some reason, we're told not to do that.
- 26:48Speaker 1: And then we look at the civil rights movement it
- 26:49Speaker 1: which is they use blacks in order to get what
- 26:53Speaker 1: they wanted, more power and influence, and to really push
- 26:57Speaker 1: for this racial back and forth from blacks and whites.
- 27:02Speaker 1: You gotta hate whitey, Whitey. You know, he enslaved you.
- 27:05Speaker 1: He did this, And they taught black people this victim mentality,
- 27:07Speaker 1: especially coming from the Hall Coast. It was, of course
- 27:10Speaker 1: something happened, and they use that and pushed that extensively
- 27:14Speaker 1: in order to get black people to like, hey, listen,
- 27:17Speaker 1: you know we're doing this over here to white people.
- 27:19Speaker 1: And you know euro opinions, Hey, you know, we gotta
- 27:20Speaker 1: wanna hold them accountable. You should do the same thing
- 27:22Speaker 1: when it comes to slavery. You should do the same
- 27:24Speaker 1: thing when it comes to Jim crowl You should bring
- 27:27Speaker 1: up the four hundred years of unpaid labor. They always
- 27:29Speaker 1: love bringing this sh up for hundred years unpaid labor.
- 27:33Speaker 1: They go, what unpaid labor? Like, when you talk, you
- 27:35Speaker 1: don't even work here.
- 27:37Speaker 2: It's from people they don't have a job.
- 27:39Speaker 1: Like you do.
- 27:40Speaker 2: You don't even work. You don't have a fucking job.
- 27:41Speaker 2: You unpaid labor, theygga even broke unemployed. You think you're
- 27:45Speaker 2: old something.
- 27:46Speaker 1: Because you're black, you might as well get in lying,
- 27:48Speaker 1: because everybody was old something of the color or the
- 27:50Speaker 1: race comes into question. No, but that was a you know,
- 27:54Speaker 1: and I'm saying this because we have to acknowledge the
- 27:57Speaker 1: fact that Jews had a They always talk about the
- 28:00Speaker 1: Black Jewish Alliance. All. You know, we helped out the
- 28:02Speaker 1: civil rights movement. Jews will tell you us while we
- 28:04Speaker 1: were your friends in the Civil Rights move when I
- 28:05Speaker 1: criticized them, all, remember who helped you out? Remember who
- 28:10Speaker 1: were your friends? Remember who stood with you. They'll do that,
- 28:12Speaker 1: and it's like, no, you had more stake and more
- 28:16Speaker 1: control in the Civil Rights movement than the black people
- 28:19Speaker 1: over did.
- 28:19Speaker 2: It was just black people doing.
- 28:20Speaker 1: It would have lasted into the eighties and it would
- 28:22Speaker 1: have been organic and proper, and malcolm 's his way
- 28:25Speaker 1: of thinking was won. He was a Communist and Marxist
- 28:30Speaker 1: and the Muslims. So it was very, of course, very
- 28:33Speaker 1: controversial at that time and not really a attractive worldview
- 28:37Speaker 1: to really subscribe to his way of thinking because of
- 28:41Speaker 1: you know where he was coming from. But the message
- 28:44Speaker 1: of do better and to build for your own and
- 28:47Speaker 1: not beg for a seat of the table, but to
- 28:49Speaker 1: create your own table. I think that would have happened
- 28:53Speaker 1: had there been no Jewish influence in the civil rights movement.
- 28:57Speaker 2: You've said the black people are their own worst endemy. Yeah,
- 29:03Speaker 2: at the end of the day.
- 29:04Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, given what I just mentioned, I can sit
- 29:09Speaker 1: back and cry about what white people have done. I
- 29:10Speaker 1: can sit back and cry about what Jews have done,
- 29:12Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it's black people
- 29:15Speaker 1: who have to deal with the problems. Now I can
- 29:17Speaker 1: complain all about the historical elements and all that, what happened,
- 29:20Speaker 1: Oh whatever, nigga, What do we doing today and where
- 29:24Speaker 1: are we gonna land tomorrow?
- 29:26Speaker 2: That's more important.
- 29:28Speaker 1: I can cry about spilled milk, or I can sit
- 29:30Speaker 1: back and go get some new milk. It's time we
- 29:32Speaker 1: would to, you know, have some cereal in the morning.
- 29:35Speaker 1: That's what I want. I can't cry about the milk
- 29:37Speaker 1: that's been expired and spilt and evaporated and it's not
- 29:40Speaker 1: even on the floor anymore, cause I mopped it up
- 29:43Speaker 1: and we still cried.
- 29:44Speaker 2: About it all.
- 29:44Speaker 1: Remember why you spilled the milk. The milk spilled, nigga,
- 29:48Speaker 1: that we mopped the milk up ten years ago, and
- 29:51Speaker 1: you still cry about it. I want some cereal today,
- 29:53Speaker 1: and if black people refuse to go get some more,
- 29:55Speaker 1: I'm I'm telling to refuse to do anything else other
- 29:57Speaker 1: than complain. And what kind of people does that? What
- 30:00Speaker 1: kind of people are we.
- 30:01Speaker 2: If we're just gonna do that all the time? And
- 30:08Speaker 2: racism you think it's can it's still strong.
- 30:11Speaker 1: I mean as long as you uh, as long as
- 30:14Speaker 1: there is multiple racial groups in the world and in
- 30:17Speaker 1: this country, there's always gonna be racism. If the world
- 30:21Speaker 1: wants just skinny and fat people, you know, there's if
- 30:23Speaker 1: somebody's gonna find a way to say, you know, I
- 30:25Speaker 1: don't like them fat motherfuckers over there. I don't like
- 30:26Speaker 1: them skinny niggas over there. It's just human nature. It's
- 30:28Speaker 1: just human nature. Now, in terms of systems, I don't
- 30:33Speaker 1: think there's any systematic racism. I don't think there's anything
- 30:35Speaker 1: a system being put in place that keeps black people down.
- 30:39Speaker 1: But I do think there's a system in the manipulation
- 30:42Speaker 1: that affects both black and white people. And it goes
- 30:44Speaker 1: back to the Jewish question and Jewish power. But when
- 30:48Speaker 1: it comes to black, no way he's holding black people
- 30:49Speaker 1: back because they're black. Nobody wants to do that. Everyone
- 30:52Speaker 1: wants black people to succeed, really everybody does. Nobody would
- 30:56Speaker 1: If nobody wanted black people to succeed, to succeed, they
- 30:58Speaker 1: just keep letting do what they're doing, right, they would
- 31:00Speaker 1: could play about it. I just say, fucking, you know,
- 31:02Speaker 1: keep killing yourself and selling drugs and you know, twerking
- 31:05Speaker 1: at gas stations and you know, having a bunch of
- 31:07Speaker 1: cut children you're not gonna take care of. They just
- 31:09Speaker 1: let them keep doing that. Nobody would say anything. The
- 31:12Speaker 1: niggas do what they gonna do.
- 31:14Speaker 2: What do you think of black culture, the hood culture,
- 31:17Speaker 2: hood culture, Well, hood culture, Nigga culture is black culture
- 31:23Speaker 2: because that twenty percent I talked about, when we're twenty percent,
- 31:26Speaker 2: we're not the sixty percent of the niggas are. The
- 31:27Speaker 2: niggas are sixty percent of the community. But it seems
- 31:29Speaker 2: like even white people are into hood culture.
- 31:31Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's a big influence with media, that's a
- 31:34Speaker 1: big influence of pushing and that that goes into the
- 31:37Speaker 1: you know, the broader conversation about this country and how
- 31:40Speaker 1: things are. You know, we have a country of honestly
- 31:42Speaker 1: weak whites and dysfunctional blacks. Whites have been told not
- 31:46Speaker 1: to have an identity, not to have any pride, not
- 31:48Speaker 1: to have a purpose, and blacks have been told to,
- 31:51Speaker 1: you know, always cry and complain, be a victim. You
- 31:54Speaker 1: don't have a direction because no one provides you a direction,
- 31:57Speaker 1: So it's someone else's fault.
- 31:59Speaker 2: And grown men older than me.
- 32:03Speaker 1: Walk every day with that that mindset, that life, that lifestyle,
- 32:06Speaker 1: the way of thinking. That's a miserable fucking existence.
- 32:13Speaker 2: Hold are you Andrew Andre twenty five, twenty five, you're
- 32:16Speaker 2: a young man?
- 32:19Speaker 1: Yeah, I am.
- 32:21Speaker 2: You have a great mind. I think what you think?
- 32:23Speaker 3: Are you optimistic about the future for of course society
- 32:27Speaker 3: and and black black people.
- 32:29Speaker 1: Of course, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if
- 32:30Speaker 1: I wasn't optimistic, if I wasn't confident in what I'm
- 32:33Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and how it would play out. But
- 32:36Speaker 1: nothing is guaranteed, nothing is absolute. Just because I feel
- 32:40Speaker 1: confident in what I'm doing, and then go on the
- 32:43Speaker 1: corner feels confident what he's doing, you know, the person
- 32:46Speaker 1: that once to stop me from what I'm doing, feels
- 32:48Speaker 1: confident what they're doing. Nothing's guaranteed. Everything and anything can
- 32:53Speaker 1: happen no matter who is that player who feels right,
- 32:56Speaker 1: cause that's that's all you know. Subjective, you know, what's good.
- 33:00Speaker 2: For me is maybe bad for you. It's bad for
- 33:02Speaker 2: me is good for you.
- 33:04Speaker 1: It really depends on power at the end of the day,
- 33:07Speaker 1: will to power, all right, and it might makes right
- 33:11Speaker 1: if I have a bigger stick, if I have a
- 33:13Speaker 1: faster gun, and if I have better troops, I might win.
- 33:20Speaker 1: But if you're able to fuck with my mind and
- 33:22Speaker 1: completely disrupt everything. If we've seen historically there's certain conflicts,
- 33:26Speaker 1: you can win that way as well. So but nothing's
- 33:29Speaker 1: absolutely nothing's guaranteed.
- 33:33Speaker 3: One last question, what would you suggest the blacks that
- 33:39Speaker 3: are complaining about how things are and basically the other
- 33:43Speaker 3: the second, third, fourth groups that you described, what would
- 33:47Speaker 3: you suggest they do to improve.
- 33:49Speaker 2: Their lot in life and to help their future and
- 33:51Speaker 2: their kid's future.
- 33:53Speaker 1: It's another uncomfortable, comfortable thing. Will say, you can't save everybody,
- 33:58Speaker 1: and not everybody's willing and and it's going to be saved.
- 34:03Speaker 1: Say that in the Christian sense I'm saying it in
- 34:05Speaker 1: a realistic sense in terms of just nature. Okay, not
- 34:08Speaker 1: everybody's gonna survive, Alright. If I'm calling out the problem,
- 34:16Speaker 1: you tune in and listen hear what I'm saying here
- 34:18Speaker 1: the message, and not focus on the messenger, cause most
- 34:20Speaker 1: of these niggas wanna focus on the messenger what I
- 34:22Speaker 1: got on, and never the message. Focus on the message
- 34:27Speaker 1: and what's being said, and really take that in and
- 34:31Speaker 1: try to operate differently, then things can go forward in
- 34:33Speaker 1: a different direction. But if you s completely just throw
- 34:36Speaker 1: the message out and focus on all the other shit.
- 34:38Speaker 1: Cause when we talk about black problems, and the first
- 34:40Speaker 1: thing that black people will sit back and say.
- 34:42Speaker 2: Is, well, what about white people?
- 34:44Speaker 1: Who fucking cares we're talking about us? So I can't
- 34:47Speaker 1: believe save those people who are just gonna jump to that.
- 34:50Speaker 1: I've seen it every time, the good majority of the time.
- 34:52Speaker 1: But the moment I'm having a conversation about black people
- 34:54Speaker 1: are doing this when we do better, well, white people
- 34:57Speaker 1: ain't doing no better. That's why I'm like, I can't
- 34:59Speaker 1: save this, my fucker.
- 35:00Speaker 2: I can't.
- 35:01Speaker 1: I just can't because he's not he's not saying it
- 35:03Speaker 1: he's not thinking clearly now, maybe he'll get it with
- 35:07Speaker 1: more experience in the world, with more experiences with other people,
- 35:11Speaker 1: maybe hearing me say a little bit more. Sometimes they
- 35:14Speaker 1: turn around, but most times they don't. So I can't.
- 35:17Speaker 1: I can't really fix, uh, the people who just don't
- 35:20Speaker 1: wanna do better?
- 35:21Speaker 2: Why would I to waste the time?
- 35:23Speaker 1: I can only fix those who are willing to listen
- 35:25Speaker 1: and will listen. That's it.