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AST SPEAKS LIVE EVERY 1ST & 3RD THURSDAY 8PM EST ON DA CREW PODCAST 51525 · 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 ten nine, eight, seven, six, five, four
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Speaker 1: three two one go.
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Speaker 2: Reading. We're going to kind of start to with a
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Speaker 2: slightly different flow. So I want you to hear a
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Speaker 2: little bit from Queen Mother Doctors about having a purpose,
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Speaker 2: just a little just agree. Oh yes, I want to free.
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Speaker 3: I want to.
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Speaker 4: Have a purpose.
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Speaker 3: And all you do is just make show that show
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Speaker 3: purpose a purpose in this here life song.
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Speaker 2: My a a little purposition every day so we can live.
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Speaker 3: I have a oh you do just special to realize
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Speaker 3: the truth.
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Speaker 2: Just wanted to kind of start tonight slightly different than
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Speaker 2: we customarily do with US speaks, building a new legacy,
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Speaker 2: and especially since the month of May is also a
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Speaker 2: number of observances. So I'm going to start with the
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Speaker 2: observances that I'm most familiar with African Liberation Month every May,
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Speaker 2: and we're going back to nineteen fifty eight, and I
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Speaker 2: just want people to pause on that there were so
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Speaker 2: many things happening in the African continent, so many things
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Speaker 2: happening in America, so many the America's plural, so many
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Speaker 2: things happening throughout the Caribbean and the world that were
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Speaker 2: uplifting people of African ancestry literally globally, but it had
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Speaker 2: a very powerful start, and tonight I just would like
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Speaker 2: to give a very concise overview something that we have
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Speaker 2: done in previous podcasts, but I think it's really important
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Speaker 2: it just keep people remembering that when we speak of
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Speaker 2: African liberation, we are speaking of the total liberation unification
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Speaker 2: of African people in a very clearly scientific, technologically uplifting
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Speaker 2: social structure. Some people feel that it needs to be socialism,
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Speaker 2: some people want to go into these other terms communism,
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Speaker 2: elevated capitalism, whatever term, but let's be specific. We're talking
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Speaker 2: about social systems structures that support the uplifting of people
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Speaker 2: of African ancestry, which, by the way, is I'm going
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Speaker 2: to let you ponderer on that thought. So I want
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Speaker 2: to also highlight that when we talk about African Liberation Day,
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Speaker 2: we're speaking of what started as Africa Freedom Day on
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Speaker 2: April fifteenth in the nineteen fifties and elevated as different
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Speaker 2: African nations, various Caribbean nations secured their independence from European colonization. Right,
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Speaker 2: it's very clear. If people want to go you can
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Speaker 2: look at the work of doctor the honorable Osagifi, doctor
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Speaker 2: Kwame and Kruma, who was the first President of the
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Speaker 2: Independent Sovereign Republic of Ghana.
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Speaker 3: Don't believe me, do the research.
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Speaker 2: This is a time where we get a chance to
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Speaker 2: talk about persons like Patresea La Mumba, who, although he
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Speaker 2: was assassinated most horrifically before really getting an opportunity to
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Speaker 2: serve and lead as President of the Congo, left the
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Speaker 2: legacy around African liberation. I want to pause for a
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Speaker 2: moment because I can go down this list of others,
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Speaker 2: because another elder at that time who was already an emperor,
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Speaker 2: already identified through historic record as the king of king
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Speaker 2: and the lords of lords of the conquering line of Judah,
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Speaker 2: the Honorable Hailey Selassie I, the first alongside her Imperial Majesty,
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Speaker 2: Empress Menan Asphal of Ethiopia. These are the elements of persons,
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Speaker 2: the characters of persons with power and sovereignty that were
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Speaker 2: the grounding the foundational thrust push with the people globally
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Speaker 2: for African liberation. So again, African Freedom Day April fifteenth
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Speaker 2: elevated to African Liberation Day, May twenty fifth, every year,
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Speaker 2: and that shift was between nineteen fifty eight and nineteen
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Speaker 2: sixty three. So let's remember what was going on in
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Speaker 2: other parts of the world between nineteen fifty eight and
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Speaker 2: nineteen sixty three. So it gives us an opportunity to
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Speaker 2: look at how the civil rights movement was moving, how
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Speaker 2: Jim Crow laws were being dismantled, how various civil rights
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Speaker 2: movements were spreading like wildflowre lack human rights activities, how
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Speaker 2: part was in South Africa was being questioned, how the
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Speaker 2: question of Israeli occupation, more specifically Zionist occupation in spaces
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Speaker 2: like Palestine, things that are still happening manifested and influenced.
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Speaker 2: What was happening inside of the African liberation movements plural
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Speaker 2: and I want to just say it was a singular movement.
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Speaker 2: It manifested very differently in different parts of the African world.
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Speaker 2: And again I speak of it in a global context.
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Speaker 2: What was happening in the Philippines under Spanish colonialism, How
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Speaker 2: were what was the impact of the removal of a
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Speaker 2: queen in the state what is now a state of Hawaii.
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Speaker 2: Just think about these things. These were things were happening
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Speaker 2: around this same period and she had to, she was
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Speaker 2: forced off of her throne. And then ultimately this same
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Speaker 2: area that we know as Hawaii as a state, as
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Speaker 2: a part of the United States of America, is part
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Speaker 2: of the Union. And I have no problem quoting we
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Speaker 2: the people, in order to form a more perfect union,
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Speaker 2: establish justice and ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense,
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Speaker 2: promote the general welfare at him, secure the blessing of
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Speaker 2: liberty to ourselves and our posterity, Do ordain and establish
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Speaker 2: that Constitution of the United States of America. When you
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Speaker 2: have a preamble like that, some of these things that
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Speaker 2: we're talking about, some of these acts of oppression, repression,
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Speaker 2: colonization that were racist, sexist classes, and purely anti liberation,
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Speaker 2: especially for people of African ancestry, they should have never happened.
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Speaker 2: So I just say all of this in that short
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Speaker 2: amount of time, just to give people a grounding opening
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Speaker 2: for some of the things that we should be more
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Speaker 2: familiar with. And I like to give people the opportunity
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Speaker 2: to look at different sites, so you can easily go
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Speaker 2: and look at certain spaces online, you know, look at
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Speaker 2: anything that's being brought forth by the Universal Negro Improvement Association,
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Speaker 2: African Communities League u n IAACL, the GUARV Movement RC
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty. Look at their website and you will get
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Speaker 2: an opportunity to see some of these things that are
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Speaker 2: linked to African Liberation Day. How it's linked to observances
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Speaker 2: that go as early as the nineteen twenties. Right, so
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Speaker 2: persons get an idea. This is not something that just
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Speaker 2: kind of popped up. It's not trendy. These are things
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Speaker 2: that are institutional, these are things that are historic. These
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Speaker 2: are occurrences, observances, commemorations, not just celebrations. You don't just
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Speaker 2: celebrate certain things. Yes, you can celebrate independence if it's authentic,
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Speaker 2: but if you're still under the sum of another sovereign entity,
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Speaker 2: which is something that is experienced by existing colonies of America,
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Speaker 2: of Britain, of France, Spain, Portugal, and the list continues,
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Speaker 2: then that means that we need to reassess how we
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Speaker 2: commemorate and observe African Liberation Day every May, and since
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Speaker 2: afric Liberation Day is specifically on identified as May twenty fifth,
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Speaker 2: and there's been a lot of shifting to some persons,
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Speaker 2: specifically Africans within the continent. All twelve million square miles.
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Speaker 2: Maybe not all twelve million square miles, but a good portion.
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Speaker 2: Many of the leaders have already identified themselves as having sovereignty,
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Speaker 2: and in many instances many do. So I'll pause on
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Speaker 2: that when it asks you to reflect if your sovereign,
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Speaker 2: how can an external sovereign nation define what your military
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Speaker 2: can do? Can define where you can deal with your
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Speaker 2: economic trade and commerce, can define whether or not you
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Speaker 2: are allowed to provide visas for persons that are not
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Speaker 2: part of your sovereign country, or even better, have a
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Speaker 2: military base in your country where not even your nationals
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Speaker 2: can go for those that aren't aware of where that exists.
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Speaker 2: I'll just use an example here in the Caribbean Cuba
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Speaker 2: Onetanamo base should no longer exist like it exists. There's
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Speaker 2: no part of the US. Maybe I could be corrected
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Speaker 2: on this. Where a external sovereign nation has complete autonomy
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Speaker 2: inside of any part of the forty eight States, the
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Speaker 2: two non contiguous states, or its five colonies that are
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Speaker 2: not American. So reciprocity is really important when we talk
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Speaker 2: about African Liberation Day. So let me get to the
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Speaker 2: other portion that I really wanted to highlight tonight as well.
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Speaker 2: Because this is something that's really there, dear for us.
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Speaker 2: There's many persons that remember, you know, the development of
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Speaker 2: the organization of African Unity and this was brought together
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Speaker 2: by the heads of state at the time. It went
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Speaker 2: from it to more than almost three dozen independent African
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Speaker 2: nations in a short in like a five year period,
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Speaker 2: and I think the persons need to take some time,
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Speaker 2: you know, look at the work, as I mentioned, whether
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Speaker 2: it's of the work of Corimeun, doctor Kwame and Krumer.
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Speaker 2: You can look at the work of leopolsingor you can
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Speaker 2: look at the work of doctor Julius nir Leopulsing Gore,
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Speaker 2: you know, but you want to look at the work
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Speaker 2: of doctor Julius Nieri Tanzania. And I think there's so
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Speaker 2: many others that you can begin to read it. Just
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Speaker 2: look at any African history material, whether it's doctor Joseph Vanyakanan,
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Speaker 2: doctor John Henry Clark, you know, any any of these
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Speaker 2: pieces that any of these authors have work that provide
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Speaker 2: like a chronology of what transpired in the middle of
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Speaker 2: the twentieth century coming into you know, let's say like
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Speaker 2: about nineteen forties. Look at the time around the time
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Speaker 2: where the League of Nations was for and where there
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Speaker 2: was a Declaration of Human Rights in nineteen forty eight.
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Speaker 2: And while that Declaration of Human Rights of nineteen forty
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Speaker 2: eight was going on, there were still there was still
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Speaker 2: Jim Crow Laws in this space called the United States
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Speaker 2: of America, and the United States of America was bart
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Speaker 2: to some story in this Declaration of Human rights. Hence
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Speaker 2: the thrust for African liberation. And that's why it still
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Speaker 2: continues to this day that there are observances. This is
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Speaker 2: tied to so many things. But I want to give
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Speaker 2: a little fun fact because persons remember all of the men,
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Speaker 2: and sometimes we forget the sisters, the women, the aunties,
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Speaker 2: the grandmaught us that participated were the artivists, activists, revolutionary
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Speaker 2: thrust with their charren wrapped to their back, with their
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Speaker 2: charren holding onto their hands, with their older children walking
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Speaker 2: with and being part of this movement. What came before
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Speaker 2: the organization of African Unity and that was formed in
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Speaker 2: nineteen sixty three. Formerly in nineteen sixty two there was
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Speaker 2: the formation of the Pan African Women's Organization that still
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Speaker 2: exists powerful and I think it's really important. Their charter
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Speaker 2: day is July thirty, first, I think it's really important.
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Speaker 2: There are a number of things that are happening every year.
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Speaker 2: For example, they have activities, They always have representation at
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Speaker 2: the United Nations. They participate with the Commission on the
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Speaker 2: Status of Women, along with other anti violence against women
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Speaker 2: and young children activities and programs around the globe, focusing
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Speaker 2: as women customarily do, health, human services and security, agriculture, education,
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Speaker 2: economic sustainability, climate issues, environmental affear. That's just what we
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Speaker 2: tend to do because we're mothers, whether through the birthing
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Speaker 2: process or by the nurturing and the maternal process, that
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Speaker 2: is part of our charge as women. And so it's
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Speaker 2: really powerful to know that Powell Pan African Women's Organization
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Speaker 2: was formed actually almost an entire year before the formulation
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Speaker 2: and it had a significant contribution and grounding for the
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Speaker 2: development of the organization of afric community. I think it's
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Speaker 2: really important for us when we talk about African Liberation
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Speaker 2: Month in the month of May, when we speak about
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Speaker 2: African Liberation Day, and even right here in Virgin Islands,
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Speaker 2: which is always surprise to many persons, we have an
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Speaker 2: observance that has been in our Virgin Islands Legislative Code,
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Speaker 2: the law from nineteen eighty nine. And what's interesting is
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Speaker 2: it was introduced to the legislature at that time earlier
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Speaker 2: in the year of nineteen eighty nine and nineteen eighty nine,
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Speaker 2: in September, the Virgin Islands was decimated more than ninety
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Speaker 2: five percent destruction from Hurricane Hugo. All of the Virgin Oles,
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Speaker 2: Saint Croix, Saint Thomas, Saint John, Dortola, Virgin Gorda, Joseph,
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Speaker 2: we can go on British side and the US side.
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Speaker 2: So it was very interesting that even in the midst
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Speaker 2: of all of that, there was a development made to
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Speaker 2: highlight the importance of having observances for Virgin Islands, making
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Speaker 2: the third week of May every year Virgin Islands African
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Speaker 2: Liberation Week and raising the African Liberation flag, the red,
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Speaker 2: black and green flag. And that goes back to Marcus
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Speaker 2: Garvey's movement, the Universal Negro Improvement Association African Communities League
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Speaker 2: the un IA from nineteen twenty and here in this
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Speaker 2: small community that is a non incorporated, non self governing
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Speaker 2: territory of the United States of America colony, Virgin Islands
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Speaker 2: African Liberation Week, and on that twenty fifth that by law,
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Speaker 2: the African Liberation flag is raised in the capitol grounds
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Speaker 2: of the Legislature, and originally it was done in our
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Speaker 2: main legislation to halls in the Isle of Saint Thomas,
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Speaker 2: and over the years it's been done on the legislative
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Speaker 2: halls which are on St. Thomas where the capital is
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Speaker 2: now in Charlotte Emiley and also here in Saint Crul.
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Speaker 2: I just need people to be clear that it wasn't
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Speaker 2: a and it didn't require revolution. It actually required policy
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Speaker 2: lobbying and the composition of a very well thought out
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Speaker 2: legislative policy that went through the halls of virginalas legislative
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Speaker 2: legislative councils and was approved. I just think people might
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Speaker 2: forget that because sometimes sometimes I think people think that
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Speaker 2: we're making these things up, and I want people to
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Speaker 2: just or that is a personal thing, and I think
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Speaker 2: that that is so far from the truth, because even
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Speaker 2: you know, I think it's interesting that some people the
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Speaker 2: Act for those people that want to know is five
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Speaker 2: four seveny three. I think that you can easily go
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Speaker 2: to Justina Law and you can see that for those
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Speaker 2: persons that might question what happened, I think that it's
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Speaker 2: also important and I want to read it, just for
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Speaker 2: the persons in the back that's think that this is
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Speaker 2: like whatever, But you can go to the US Virgin
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Speaker 2: Island's Code, Title I, General Provisions, Chapter eleven, Holidays, Section
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Speaker 2: one ninety two. Virgin Island's African Heritage Week. Thank you
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Speaker 2: for the question and African Liberation there. So I appreciate
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Speaker 2: that people are watching this and making sure that I'm
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Speaker 2: saying what I'm saying correctly, but I want to read
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Speaker 2: what is in the code. The third week in May
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Speaker 2: shall be observed as Virgin Island's African Heritage Week, and
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Speaker 2: the twenty fifth day of May shall be observed as
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Speaker 2: African Liberation Day. At least fifteen days prior to Virgin
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Speaker 2: Island's African Heritage Week, the Governor shall issue a proclamation
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Speaker 2: calling on all residents to join together in appropriate ceremonies
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Speaker 2: to reflect upon our African heritage. See The Governor shall
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Speaker 2: appoint a committee each year to coordinate with the African
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Speaker 2: Appraisal Workshop. I'll put an asterisk to that one because
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Speaker 2: there's a different formation in twenty twenty five and other
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Speaker 2: interested community groups and develop appropriate plans, programs, and ceremonies
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Speaker 2: for the celebration of African Heritage Week in the Virgin Islands.
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Speaker 2: The d this is the part I want to highlight.
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Speaker 3: The legislature.
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Speaker 2: The legislature on African Liberation Day, remember that's May twenty fifth,
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Speaker 2: shall hold appropriate ceremonies on the ground to the Capitol Building, Charlotte,
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Speaker 2: Omily Saint Thomas. Such ceremonies shall include the raising of
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Speaker 2: the African Libration Flag. These aren't my words, this is
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Speaker 2: in the code, and I think it's really important for
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Speaker 2: persons to recognize. So when we're talking about Applebricus, you know,
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Speaker 2: we can talk about the celebratory part. We know about
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Speaker 2: how we're going to address and we talk about all
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Speaker 2: the music and the dance and it's fabulous. It's important
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Speaker 2: to know the history. It's important to know since everyone
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Speaker 2: likes to talk about law and what's policy and what's
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Speaker 2: in place, and this still exists in our Virgin olege Code,
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Speaker 2: and I think it's important to know some of the
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Speaker 2: legacy builders that were instrumental to this. So whenever I
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Speaker 2: see these types of codes and initiatives, it makes me
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Speaker 2: also highlight all of the different organizations, of which there
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Speaker 2: are many that remain contributory to this, so all of
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Speaker 2: the different African, Pan African, Black, African, African, West Indian, African,
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Speaker 2: Caribbean Indigenous initiatives, organizations, policymakers come together to be able
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Speaker 2: to highlight African Liberation Day and in the case Virgin
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Speaker 2: Island's African Heritage Week because it gives us an opportunity
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Speaker 2: to pause and reflect on what led up to the
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Speaker 2: international designation of African Liberation Day on May twenty fifth.
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Speaker 2: And one of the organizations that has been instrumental to
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Speaker 2: hosting and work and collaborating quite internationally is the All
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Speaker 2: African People's Revolutionary Party, an organization called for initiated through
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Speaker 2: the leadership and efforts of the Honorable President of god
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Speaker 2: Osietry for doctor Kuame and Kruma and others, and in well,
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Speaker 2: people forget that it's an international organization. This is something
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Speaker 2: that I always encourage people just put in AAPRP, not AARP.
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Speaker 2: Make sure we correct ourselves when I'm talking about the
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Speaker 2: over fifty organization, We're talking about the All African People's
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Speaker 2: Revolutionary Party, which still exists, that still has cadre, that
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Speaker 2: still has organizers that specifically look at Pan Africanism and
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Speaker 2: the definition presented and promoted by doctor Kuaime and Krumer
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Speaker 2: as Pan Africanianism being the total liberation and unification of
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Speaker 2: Africa under a scientifically socialist government, very specific, very clear
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Speaker 2: on not being supportive of and the term you may
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Speaker 2: hear is a bah or down with capitalismo abbah, imperial lismo, imperialism,
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Speaker 2: zionism a party, very specific, very specific, and I think
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Speaker 2: it's important for persons because we've covered quite a bit
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Speaker 2: in a short amount of time. But I just won't
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Speaker 2: like it, didn't mean to go that fast, but I
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Speaker 2: got excited. It's been a lot going on in the region.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot going on in the African world, and
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Speaker 2: I definitely just like to use this opportunity for persons
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Speaker 2: to just get a slice, a snippet of so many
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Speaker 2: different things that are taking place while we're honoring African
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Speaker 2: Liberation Month. It is also a significant opportunity to honor
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Speaker 2: and celebrate this time where many of our youth, and
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Speaker 2: they're not so young, from elementary to secondary to shared university,
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Speaker 2: college and even posts secondary are engaged in promotional exercises, graduations,
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Speaker 2: earning diplomas, commencement exercises, acquiring from associates to baccalaureate, to Masters,
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Speaker 2: to PhD, md, llm JD, SJD, and a bazilion other degrees.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure there's more letters than I've shared here, and
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Speaker 2: we want to send a resounding congratulations to all of
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Speaker 2: the graduates and promotees for the class of twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: I wanted to pause because even here in the Virgin
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Speaker 2: Islands of the United States, at the University of the
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Speaker 2: Virgin Islands on our albert A Machine campus, today was
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Speaker 2: our commencement exercise for the class of twenty twenty five
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Speaker 2: and beautiful to see the families and community come together
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Speaker 2: and celebrate. I think we should start having more graduations
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Speaker 2: and commencement exercises. Maybe that's maybe we just need to
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Speaker 2: just have them like once a season, just the thought,
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Speaker 2: just the thought, so that people can come together and
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Speaker 2: celebrate and acknowledge the achievements, the great gifts that we
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Speaker 2: are being blessed with, and seeing people move from one
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Speaker 2: stage of their academic development or vocation. You know, academic
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Speaker 2: I include vocational as well as different layers of the
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Speaker 2: traditional collegiate space. Because we had so many opportunities, like
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Speaker 2: the month of May, while it's African Liberation Month. Yeah, globally,
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Speaker 2: like from the beginning of the month until I believe
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Speaker 2: the last graduation we have here is going to be
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Speaker 2: shortly after right before our Calebration day, you know. So
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Speaker 2: it's like almost twenty five days of commencement exercises, promotional exercises,
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Speaker 2: graduations throughout our community. And I'm sure this is happening
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Speaker 2: because we see what's going on in the rest of
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Speaker 2: the forty eight contiguous inclusive. And I must add, of
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Speaker 2: course Hawaii and Alaska, right and all of the spaces
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Speaker 2: that are still working through being territories or commonwealths Puerto Rico,
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Speaker 2: Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and of course the Virgin Islands.
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Speaker 2: I just think it's important that we just take a
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Speaker 2: minute and just give thanks and celebrate. And I'm going
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Speaker 2: to give a shout out. She probably didn't think I
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Speaker 2: would do that in the middle of my broadcast, but
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Speaker 2: I'm definitely giving a shout out to our visionary, none
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Speaker 2: other than Sister Queen Angela on her commencement exercise for
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Speaker 2: her master's degree. I like wanna in the midst of
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Speaker 2: doing all of this with broadcasting, podcasting, research, publication. I
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Speaker 2: just really want to acknowledge you and celebrate you as well,
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Speaker 2: because I think it's important that we do that and
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Speaker 2: take those moments and if I missed out on anybody
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Speaker 2: else's in our team's achievements, graduations, et cetera. And even
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Speaker 2: if it's your grandchild or your auntie or your uncle
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Speaker 2: or one of the children in the neighborhood, we're celebrating
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Speaker 2: them too, because this is a time it's really important
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Speaker 2: that we do these things and honor these life shifting,
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Speaker 2: transformation achievements when we can, because it's not always about
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Speaker 2: the distractions of death or hurt and negativity. We would
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Speaker 2: like to be able to celebrate these threads of the
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Speaker 2: achievements of our families, within our families, around our families,
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Speaker 2: in our communities, around our communities to the best of
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Speaker 2: our abilities. So, like I said, I'm just extending congratulations
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Speaker 2: to all of the graduates that are celebrating during this
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Speaker 2: particular time, from latter part of April, probably moving all
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Speaker 2: the way into the month of May, all the way
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Speaker 2: to the third first So I just wanted to highlight that.
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Speaker 4: I think it's.
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Speaker 2: Also important sometimes too. Now that I've done that part,
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Speaker 2: I want you to hear this song. This is my
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Speaker 2: infomercial right. So I have had the honor and privilege
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Speaker 2: of being part of a fabulous community, part of the
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Speaker 2: very regal and royal community as a Queen mother in
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Speaker 2: the Pocommon nation in Kenya, and through the honorable declaring
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Speaker 2: given to me and the blessings bestowed upon me by
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Speaker 2: His Royal Majesty, King Doctor Macarani Mungasi the Seventh, who
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Speaker 2: by the way, is also a dean in the School
31:35
Speaker 2: of Medicine at Pawana University in Kenya. That's the sidebar,
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Speaker 2: important sidebar. But through his efforts and helping communities, doing
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Speaker 2: humanitarian work, supporting African liberation in all ways possible, supporting
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Speaker 2: global connectivity that restores peace, provides justice, and of course
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Speaker 2: course the what did we say, promote the general welfare
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Speaker 2: at hand? Those things. All of that, I think it's
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Speaker 2: important that we talk about how is this done through music?
32:11
Speaker 2: How is this done through the arts. So we have
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Speaker 2: the joint privilege of meeting a number of artists, but
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Speaker 2: specifically when we were welcomed a couple of years ago,
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Speaker 2: and whenever we do return, we get an opportunity to
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Speaker 2: hear about a young artist, Fred Abio, and I encourage you, Fred,
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Speaker 2: I know we know that term Abio a b I oh,
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Speaker 2: I encourage you to go to YouTube. Just put in
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Speaker 2: his name and you'll see the diversity that we have
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Speaker 2: in young artists. And this particular artist, Hale's out of Kenya,
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Speaker 2: and I think it's important. I just wanted you to
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Speaker 2: just hear part of what he shared.
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Speaker 5: Enjoy who someho.
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Speaker 4: Okaya call?
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Speaker 3: Are you ready?
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Speaker 5: China?
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Speaker 4: Who Okaya call?
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Speaker 2: Are you read?
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Speaker 4: To the colling me names that tana to the coo
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Speaker 4: taco watches say that is a tana to my coochac.
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Speaker 4: Well me because Tana Tao watch say that is a Tana.
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Speaker 2: Country.
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Speaker 4: Wonder me think? Lady one, make a man for your mom?
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Speaker 4: Your mom pum who make her nam Bramonica she kuni
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Speaker 4: so we oh oh see what my daughter be? You
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Speaker 4: and Mama Johnny one here my lad she makes me
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Speaker 4: up again? Let me glas and people happy? Kayako kayak
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Speaker 4: turn o nampa when to whom moving through the child
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Speaker 4: carib Chiana, caribolalla carribo.
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Speaker 3: Bye.
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Speaker 5: We love you.
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Speaker 3: Just as you could tell.
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Speaker 2: We can listen to this music all day and actually
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Speaker 2: I'm really encouraging persons. Go to YouTube fred Abio and
35:45
Speaker 2: you can put in who's some and it's let me
35:48
Speaker 2: get the proper spelling so that for those persons that
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Speaker 2: might save it.
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Speaker 4: H U s U M you I E.
35:57
Speaker 2: And he's also featured with a string artists on strings
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Speaker 2: Afro Country. That's who you were hearing. They were speaking
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Speaker 2: between themselves and this was a song that welcomes you
36:09
Speaker 2: to the community. So you may have heard them saying
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Speaker 2: kadivu and then they were saying the names of the
36:14
Speaker 2: persons that were coming into the village. And when you
36:17
Speaker 2: hear Hajilla, that's me, that's my DOMI And I'm really
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Speaker 2: grateful that we were able to just listen briefly to
36:32
Speaker 2: part of that selection. And there's a number of other
36:34
Speaker 2: selections that that particular artist has. And again I share
36:37
Speaker 2: these things because we're saying we're highlighting Africa liberation a
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Speaker 2: month and there's so many different elements that are tied
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Speaker 2: to that. And I always encourage my sisters and bredas
36:49
Speaker 2: to go to some of these websites to learn specifically
36:56
Speaker 2: about these observances. Don't just take what people will show
37:00
Speaker 2: etching or definitely don't just think that it's only what's
37:03
Speaker 2: available in social media. There's a study vibe. You know
37:07
Speaker 2: how we used to have like book clubs. Well, I
37:10
Speaker 2: think there's still some that exists, but a lot of times,
37:12
Speaker 2: you know, the intention is so that we're studying together.
37:15
Speaker 2: I guess now it's scrolling. But for some of us,
37:21
Speaker 2: especially at least in my youth, we had different study groups.
37:24
Speaker 2: You know, inside of the AAPRP there was work study.
37:28
Speaker 2: Is work study? Let me be more specific. You know,
37:30
Speaker 2: in other organizations or groups, it may be that you
37:34
Speaker 2: may read around things that are specific to your area
37:37
Speaker 2: of specialization, whether it's natural apathy, health and wellness, legally affairs,
37:44
Speaker 2: human rights, artisans, craftsmanship, construction, agriculture, architecture, whatever, astronomy, whatever
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Speaker 2: it is. It's important for us to study and to
37:57
Speaker 2: know more specific in a first hand form, to be
38:03
Speaker 2: able to speak about certain things. So I encourage persons
38:06
Speaker 2: I've said it. You can go to a a p
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Speaker 2: r P hyphen I n t l dot org for
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Speaker 2: those persons that aren't familiar with the All African People's
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Speaker 2: Revolutionary Party. When you go to the site, don't get,
38:18
Speaker 2: don't get, don't lean back.
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Speaker 4: Just know that these are.
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Speaker 2: This is an organization that has a legacy, a history
38:27
Speaker 2: beyond half of a century. So it's just that you
38:31
Speaker 2: just didn't know right now, but you probably have been
38:34
Speaker 2: around persons that have been around the AA P r P.
38:37
Speaker 2: You know there's other organizations like the U.
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Speaker 3: N I A a c. L.
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Speaker 2: Just put in Garby and you will find a host
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Speaker 2: of materials, publications if you don't want to read a
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Speaker 2: whole lot of bookscause many of the books are very long.
38:51
Speaker 2: There's a they're coming audiobooks now. But you also can
38:54
Speaker 2: see films, short films. There's a really lovely short film
39:00
Speaker 2: on just getting a thread of who the Honorable Marcus
39:05
Speaker 2: Messiah Garvey is. It's a piece that is referred and
39:09
Speaker 2: it's actually done by a brother who currently resides in well,
39:14
Speaker 2: you know, before I say that, I know him to
39:16
Speaker 2: have a studio with his affairs in California now West Coast,
39:21
Speaker 2: and brother Shaka Torre has really coned in on providing
39:27
Speaker 2: a seven minute video that provides a scope of that
39:31
Speaker 2: history that again is tied to after liberation, around the
39:35
Speaker 2: life and contributions of the Honorable Marcus Messiah Garby. And
39:40
Speaker 2: I'm curve persons you know the whirlwind. Just Google. These
39:44
Speaker 2: are things that you can find and I usually I
39:47
Speaker 2: put a whole lot of these things inside of our space.
39:50
Speaker 2: If you're interested, send an email to us Speaks A S.
39:55
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40:00
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40:06
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40:10
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40:22
Speaker 2: available to you in less than forty eight hours. And
40:24
Speaker 2: I say forty eight hours because we have another graduation
40:27
Speaker 2: tomorrow and then we have weekends that we're preparing for
40:31
Speaker 2: the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Honorable
40:41
Speaker 2: Malcolm X. So all those people that thought they remember
40:43
Speaker 2: May nineteenth, exactly nineteen twenty five, and there are hope
40:53
Speaker 2: activities are being organized around the globe. There's more activities
41:01
Speaker 2: usually can keep up, but this time absolutely not, because
41:05
Speaker 2: there are observances, you know, honoring his centennial of what
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Speaker 2: would have been his one hundredth birthday all around the world.
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Speaker 2: And I think it's important to know and learn as
41:18
Speaker 2: much as we can, because again his birthday is literally
41:24
Speaker 2: what six days before African Liberation Day, so it's all connected.
41:34
Speaker 2: It's all connected, and there are a number of things
41:36
Speaker 2: that happened on May nineteenth, and there's a number of persons,
41:39
Speaker 2: there's a number of persons that we need to acknowledge
41:41
Speaker 2: and observe as well. That list as long. If you're
41:44
Speaker 2: interested in knowing more about that, feel free. As I said,
41:47
Speaker 2: Oz Speaks at gmail dot com or in any of
41:50
Speaker 2: our platforms that are here, because this is why we
41:53
Speaker 2: offer this kind of information on us Speaks broadcast here
41:57
Speaker 2: within our crew, because it's really important for persons to
42:02
Speaker 2: know how we navigate through these spaces of freedom, these decolmization,
42:08
Speaker 2: reparatory justice, reparations, restitution, there's a lot of different our words,
42:16
Speaker 2: but more specifically, how do we uplift ourselves and remain uplifted.
42:22
Speaker 2: How do we reclaim our sovereignty even in the midst
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Speaker 2: of chaos. This is not the first time that people
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Speaker 2: of African ancestry have endured challenges in societies, in called civilizations.
42:40
Speaker 2: This is not the first time, and prayerfully we always
42:43
Speaker 2: like to say this will never you know, people like
42:45
Speaker 2: say never again, notice people aren't saying that right now.
42:48
Speaker 2: It's not the main thrust. Our thrust is to thrive,
42:55
Speaker 2: not just survive, not just die for the revolution the revolution,
43:02
Speaker 2: live through the revolution. Not just truth as power, as
43:07
Speaker 2: one of our eldresses here, doctor Alethia share it with us,
43:13
Speaker 2: but to authentically truths acknowledge truth as power. That's a
43:24
Speaker 2: little different because then the principles we speak of of truth, justice, order, reciprocity, balance,
43:32
Speaker 2: divine righteousness, and harmony have to say all that been
43:37
Speaker 2: in our ancestral ancient African Nubian New Cushian New Chemic
43:43
Speaker 2: to heritage legacy, our unc legacy, our eternal life, our
43:48
Speaker 2: grounded life legacy. We use four letters, my aunts maat
43:56
Speaker 2: all of that a feminine principle representing and reflecting the qualities,
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Speaker 2: the character, the practice, the admonitions truth, justice, order, reciprocity, balance,
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Speaker 2: divine righteousness and harmony. And again this is all tied
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Speaker 2: to what people and again we can have conversations. You
44:23
Speaker 2: spell Africa a f Rica, afr Ika, af r a ka,
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Speaker 2: do you do Afro wherever you're from? Do you do
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Speaker 2: Afri wherever you're from?
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Speaker 3: African American?
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Speaker 2: We have a God of things that we're still working
44:39
Speaker 2: through because it was intentional for us to have distractions
44:45
Speaker 2: and institutional chaos and systems that did not facilitate our
44:55
Speaker 2: ability to just stay firm in my ant, stay grounded
45:01
Speaker 2: in divine intelligence shihuti, to move beyond what everyone is
45:10
Speaker 2: AI AI artificial intelligence outside of ancestral intelligences plural, it's
45:19
Speaker 2: not singular, right, And these are the types of things
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Speaker 2: that we get a chance to really highlight, celebrate and
45:28
Speaker 2: share when we have opportunities in these respected podcasts to
45:32
Speaker 2: bring truth as power to recognize what are the things
45:37
Speaker 2: that we can do in ourselves that are transformed, that
45:41
Speaker 2: are transforming our communities, transforming our families a bit of
45:47
Speaker 2: a time. We're not perfect. Our imperfections are wide and great.
45:56
Speaker 2: But if we do if we need it, like how
45:59
Speaker 2: we prepare bread or put it on the potter's wheel
46:02
Speaker 2: and hewnit wealth with sacred intentions that are positive, that
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Speaker 2: are uplifting, that are healing, that restore joy, that support
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Speaker 2: liberation and unification, and even the integration of technologies that
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Speaker 2: honor human life, not dismantle human life, not destroy the
46:25
Speaker 2: character of our people, not mismanage and harm our children,
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Speaker 2: our women, our men, our families, our communities, but things
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Speaker 2: that actually allow us to live life well, live life
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Speaker 2: with joy and prosperity, and a livity that is honorable
46:53
Speaker 2: in the sight of our ancestors, embraced by the almighty Creator.
46:58
Speaker 2: By all the names that we use, there's always the
47:03
Speaker 2: opportunity to share when we speak of prayers, meditation, reflections,
47:10
Speaker 2: affirmations and bringing our groundings. When we speak of things,
47:16
Speaker 2: whether it's African Liberation, whether we talk about the observances
47:19
Speaker 2: for different great achievers, you know, our historic epic, iconic
47:26
Speaker 2: Redan and Cistern. You know, I remember learning pretty young
47:34
Speaker 2: about women in Nigeria in the fifties, well actually in
47:39
Speaker 2: the forties, coming into the fifties again a precursor to
47:43
Speaker 2: what took place leading up to African Liberation Day as
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Speaker 2: an international observance, and the women they gathered, the market
47:52
Speaker 2: women that at one point there was a class thing
47:55
Speaker 2: between the more elite, trained, educated, more wealthy women of
48:04
Speaker 2: Nigeria and the quote common market women that may not
48:10
Speaker 2: have gone to school or may have more children than
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Speaker 2: two point five. And these women back in the twentieth
48:19
Speaker 2: century came together. I think it's really important that we
48:24
Speaker 2: remember these things, you know, and it makes me remember
48:32
Speaker 2: the honorable Queen Mother Fudmila Ransom Kuti. And I'm going
48:40
Speaker 2: to pause on that one, and I encourage persons to
48:43
Speaker 2: find out about some of the work, the revolutions, the
48:50
Speaker 2: movements that were spearheaded by women that many people don't
48:55
Speaker 2: talk about. Think about Arlotta in Cuba, find out about her.
49:05
Speaker 3: Find out about.
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Speaker 2: Queen Mary and them, because it wasn't just Queen Mary,
49:11
Speaker 2: it was Queen Mary and them many women that led
49:15
Speaker 2: The Fireburn of eighteen seventy eight in Saint Croix was
49:19
Speaker 2: a labor rebellion that people still talk about today. Talk
49:25
Speaker 2: about Queen Reference who led an African revolution in the
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Speaker 2: smallest island Saint Well, now I'm not the smallest, but
49:35
Speaker 2: back then the smallest isle in what was then the
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Speaker 2: Danish West Indies in Saint John in seventeen thirty three,
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Speaker 2: and strategically had a military that kept that island in
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Speaker 2: the heights of enslavement and human tracking slavery they like
49:57
Speaker 2: to call it, in seventeen three and held that island
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Speaker 2: as a free African space from November seventeen thirty three
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Speaker 2: until May seventeen thirty four. I don't think most people
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Speaker 2: learn these things. And then we can go onto more
50:17
Speaker 2: suavemente space and look at one of the earliest. I
50:23
Speaker 2: tend not to say the first, because as we do
50:26
Speaker 2: research we find out more, but one of the earliest,
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Speaker 2: non violent successful. I want to highlight nonviolent protests. No
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Speaker 2: blood in the isle of St. Thomas right on Main Street,
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Speaker 2: the same main street that when people come to Saint
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Speaker 2: Thomas they just think suns, signed sea and fun. But
50:45
Speaker 2: that same main street there was a protests led by women,
50:53
Speaker 2: supported by men, but led by women. And one of
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Speaker 2: the lead leaders of that particular protest it was a
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Speaker 2: woman named Queen Kasaire. This eighteen ninety two. And I
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Speaker 2: share these things not to make this too academic, but
51:13
Speaker 2: just so do we begin to unfold. You know, this
51:16
Speaker 2: is a time. You know what did Ida B.
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Speaker 3: Wells do that was.
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Speaker 2: So profound to address things around lynching in the forty
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Speaker 2: eight contiguous US and to establish institutions that were still
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Speaker 2: grounded with in the twenty perst century. We talk about
51:34
Speaker 2: sojournal Truth, but did we really go into the truth
51:37
Speaker 2: of what Sojourner Truth did and how she led. That's
51:42
Speaker 2: all part of our liberation, Harriet Tubman, of course, Amy
51:51
Speaker 2: ash Red Gardy and Amy Jack's Gardner, Henrietta Vinton Davis.
51:56
Speaker 2: I could do this all night, and I just encourage us.
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Speaker 2: Who are the African liberators that you like to add
52:04
Speaker 2: to this list? Share them with us so that we
52:08
Speaker 2: can do some study and honor and celebrate different persons
52:14
Speaker 2: around African liberation months and throughout the year. We could
52:17
Speaker 2: do this every day and find more persons I wouldn't
52:21
Speaker 2: dis like to encourage. As we close out tonight, no
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Speaker 2: African liberation we speak of the day May twenty fifth.
52:30
Speaker 2: Annually we speak of the Virgin Islands African heritage. We
52:34
Speaker 2: care in the Virgin Islands by the Virgin Islands Code.
52:38
Speaker 2: The third week, it's usually honor about the It's usually
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Speaker 2: like the eighteenth to the twenty fifth or thereabouts, you know.
52:45
Speaker 2: Usually it's like from the Sunday. In this case, it
52:48
Speaker 2: will be from the eighteenth. Let me make sure I
52:52
Speaker 2: correct myself. Yes, it'll be from the eighteenth to the
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Speaker 2: twenty fifth. Yes, And we get a chance to really
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Speaker 2: celebrate and honor African liberators that influence not only the
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Speaker 2: Virgin Islands, not only the Caribbean, but the world. Yeah,
53:10
Speaker 2: this is a great time for us to do that.
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Speaker 2: We don't have to only limit ourselves to Black History
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Speaker 2: Month and February in the west of the Atlantic October
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Speaker 2: to the east of the Atlantic. Right, we do this
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Speaker 2: three hundred and sixty five days, three hundred and sixty
53:27
Speaker 2: six days when it's sleepier twenty four to seven, because
53:30
Speaker 2: it's a lot that needs to be learned, and there's
53:33
Speaker 2: a lot also that needs to be unlearned, so that
53:36
Speaker 2: we honor ourselves, that we respect ourselves, that we can
53:39
Speaker 2: be healed, that we do not allow distractions of who
53:43
Speaker 2: did what to who, and who's still trying to do
53:47
Speaker 2: what to who we have. This is our time to
53:50
Speaker 2: gather our resources in economic spaces and psychological spaces, and
53:57
Speaker 2: emotional spaces and spiritual spaces, press to authentically transform and.
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Speaker 5: Grow and be whole.
54:06
Speaker 2: So that's what I'm going to be doing throughout after
54:09
Speaker 2: Liberation Month, and it's going to continue because June we
54:13
Speaker 2: get to talk about National Caribbean American Heritage Month. I
54:17
Speaker 2: don't think that has been dismantled yet, or maybe they
54:20
Speaker 2: don't know that that exists. So prayerfully we're going to
54:24
Speaker 2: get to talk about that in June in our forthcoming podcast.
54:28
Speaker 2: So again it's been an honor and a privilege to
54:31
Speaker 2: share here on us speaks with our beloved crew. You know,
54:37
Speaker 2: remember that there's the Aspiring Authors magazine LLC. There's been
54:42
Speaker 2: recommendations do those stars, because while we do all of
54:46
Speaker 2: this work, there is a cost. And reciprocity is part
54:52
Speaker 2: of my auts. So don't just come with the truth
54:55
Speaker 2: and a justice. Notice I said truth, justice, order, crocity,
55:02
Speaker 2: divine righteousness, and harmony. And that reciprocity comes in a
55:06
Speaker 2: variety of ways. It's resourcefulness, it's how we exchange, how
55:11
Speaker 2: we give currency, as we receive currency. When people are giving,
55:17
Speaker 2: it's important for us to receive, and that continues right
55:22
Speaker 2: inside of our own sousu what do you call it,
55:25
Speaker 2: hand whatever term you use for how we keep our resources,
55:30
Speaker 2: to keep us strong, to keep us balanced, and to
55:36
Speaker 2: keep us harmonized. So with that we know that culture
55:39
Speaker 2: heals humanity. Land is our foundation and spiritual harmony unifies us.
55:44
Speaker 2: We give thanks and praise for those that were able
55:48
Speaker 2: to join in. Tune in and listen again, this has
55:51
Speaker 2: been Queen Mother, doctor Chincah. I am excited on what
55:56
Speaker 2: you're going to offer and share with us around the
55:59
Speaker 2: Africa and liberators that we need to include in the
56:02
Speaker 2: future podcasts right here. Just remember, you get an opportunity
56:10
Speaker 2: to give, just as we give an opportunity to receive.
56:14
Speaker 2: And we're very grateful for everyone's contributions. They're sharing and
56:19
Speaker 2: much much more. I'm looking forward to the opportunities that
56:24
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56:27
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56:43
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56:45
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56:49
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56:54
Speaker 2: So again, enjoy your evening. I'm looking forward to everyone
56:59
Speaker 2: remember bring their purpose and sharing with us how we
57:03
Speaker 2: move this forward. Keep that energy forward, keep your purpose
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Speaker 2: a tap and blessing. Good night.
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Speaker 3: Free. Oh yes, I want to.
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Speaker 5: I want to.
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