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Black Girlrupt. Y'all already know how y'all already know how girlrupt? What's up?
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What's up? What's up? Y'all, y'all go? What is?
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It's Your Girl ash He y'all bringing y'all another episode of Black Girl INTERRUPTI y'all,
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it is Thursday, and I'm so excited, Bige when I tell you,
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I've been looking so for to tomorrow. Baby, I've been looking for
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Friday since Monday, and I'm so glad that it is on the way.
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I promise, I'm so glad that it's on the way. But again,
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y'all, welcome back to another episode of Black Girl Interrupted. Y'all already know
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who I am. It is the host, it is the creator, It
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is the she eoh of Black Girl Interrupted podcast. Your Girl Ash bringing y'all
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another great episode of Black Girl Interrupted. So before I even get into tonight's
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conversation, let me say this, let me address some things really well,
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just one thing in particular. Let me address something I have received twenty two
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messages with regards to this P Diddy situation. Let me say this, I'm
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not gonna speak about that until next month, because next month it's Sexual Assault
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Awareness month. So if y'all want to hear my take on that, y'all
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tune in next month. Y'all tune in next week as I kick off Sexual
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Assault Awareness Month, and that will definitely be one of the conversations. So
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uh, for everybody that has sent me a message that was like, Ashley,
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we know you're gonna say something, I'm not gonna say anything right now.
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A lot of the story is still developing. And when I do the
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show, when I do the episode with regards to P Diddy, I need
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to make sure I got all my eyes out of my tea's crossed. I
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need to make sure I have all the information before I bring y'all a show,
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because y'all know I like to have my receipts. Y'all know I love
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to bring facts. I like to bring stats. I like to bring numbers
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because see, baby, y'all loves the tussle, and I'm not tussling with
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nobody because see, I'm gonna bring y'all the real truth, facts, not
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no assumptions, and then I'm gonna let y'all tussle it out amongst yourselves.
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Excuse me, y'all, my sinuses are really truly bother me. I went
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outside the day and I don't know, I just been sneezing and stopped up
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ever since. But I was not gonna let me do my show. I
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was not gonna let that stop me from doing my should tonight. So just
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let y'all know I will not be speaking on the be Diddy situation at least
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not tonight. Okay, y'all will get my five sense on the story and
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other things of that nature. But again, happy Thursday. We are one
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day away from the weekend. I hope everyone has had a beautiful week.
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I hope everyone gets a chance this weekend to just rest, reset, and
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relax. I'm sorry, rest, relax and reset. That's what I want
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everyone to do this weekend. Like I said, things have been real crazy
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for everybody. We've been busy. But again, I just want everyone to
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take this time this weekend just to rest. I want you to relax and
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release. Like, don't even carry next last week into next week because you
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can't change it. So y'all already know what I do before I even start
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my episode. Y'all know I always do my mental health check ins because I
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want to make sure everyone is doing good. I say this every episode.
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So yes, I know it may repetitive, but hey, it just it
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is what it is. But I hope everyone, whatever it is that you're
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going through, I pray that you get over it. I pray that you
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grow through your situations. I pray that you allow God to move you in
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the direction that He wants you to move in. And I pray that whatever
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is affecting you mentally, physically or emotionally, I pray that you will heal
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by God's stripes. So again, before we get started, y'all know,
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I always love to do a mental health check in. So here's a little
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something that I hope will get y'all through the week. Success can be a
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lonely road. It can be a tough road. It can be a hard
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road. It's not for everyone. Those who follow others like sheep will never
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know who they truly are. Only those who follow their own path can discover
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their true potential. Those who fly along have the strongest wings. Those who
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walk along have the strongest direction. The rest will always be in need of
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others for their survival. They will always need attention, need recognition to survive.
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I am at peace, a law needing no attention, no recognition,
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and still I thrive. I'm not saying those who have support are weak.
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I'm not saying you must go at it alone to gain strength. This is
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just for those who have fought battles along, those who have felt like they
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don't fit in, those who have never had support in anything they do,
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All of those who feel no one believes in them. You don't need them
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to believe in you. If you believe in you, you don't need their
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support. If you've got your own back. The best part is when you
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truly live the life you want to live, When you speak your truth,
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when you're embraceful you are, then you gain real respect and real love.
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People love those who have the guts to be themselves, those who have the
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courage to follow their heart. Why it's rare, Why because most people wish
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they could do the same. Show them the way. Keep going, believe
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in yourself. It will all come good and end. And when it does,
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you won't have only inspired yourself to be born, you will have inspired
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so many others. I had to learn to fight alone, and because of
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that, I am strong alone. I am strong full stop. I developed
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inner strength that can't be broken. I am unbreakable. Because of the pain.
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I am strong because of the struggle. I have character most will never
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know. I appreciate others more than ever. I have more compassion than ever.
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I have to go deep into the darkness. Now I have more depth.
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Now I can see clearer. I had to face huge internal challenges.
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Now I can defeat any challenge. I will destroy every challenge. I am
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proud who I have become. I am proud I have overcome. I am
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proud I kept going. I am proud of who I am, who I
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have become. I am proud I stay true to myself because now I can
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live as myself with respect from others and most importantly, pride and respect from
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myself. M Bye, bye bye. All right. I hope that inspired
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and encouraged somebody to get up and keep going. And it's okay to rock
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along. It's okay not to have a crowd of people around you. It's
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okay to stand out. It's okay to be different from everybody else because God
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created you that way. God created you in a manner that he saw fit
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for you. So don't worry about what other people have to say you.
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Just focus on you and just know that it's always on God's time and never
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on hours, and whatever it is that you set your mind to do,
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you could do anything. You just got to put in the work. You
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just have to stay dedicated and stay focusing on let anyone distract you or throw
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you off your path. Augh, all right, So as again, I'm
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still doing my mental health checking. So dropping the comments and let me know
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how you're feeling. Let me know how you're feeling tonight again, Today's Thursday.
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We are one day away from the weekend. And baby, let me
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tell you some one thing I'm doing. I'm relaxing. I'm resting, and
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I'm resetting for another work week. But for the most part, I'm just
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gonna rest, relax and take care of me. It's all about me to
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we can, not anybody else, just me. That's it. I'm just
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chilling. I'm relaxing. I'm not doing anything. It's gonna be my time
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where I reset and just focus on what I have going on and the things
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that I have coming up in the near future. So I'm excited about that,
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all right. So just know that I love you, and I pray
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that whatever it is that you're going through, I pray that you get through
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and just whatever you do, do not give up. All Right, So
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tonight's episode, as we close out National Women's History Month, I just want
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to say thank y'all for the beautiful support, for the love, for the
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shares, the posts, the comments, and our actions. I really appreciate
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that. I'm very humble for the love and the support that you guys show
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me consistently. So thank y'all so much for pushing black Girl interrupted up that
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ladder. I appreciate it like so much. I'm so humbled. I'm so
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grateful for everything that you guys do for me, for everything that you continue
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to do for me, And I appreciate y'all just loving on me and encouraging
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me to keep going and never to give up on my dream. So tonight,
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as I close out National Women's History Month, we're gonna be talking about
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the lee's Burg Stockade. Girls. I bet y'all are like, what where
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do you keep getting all these these people these conversations, like, we've never
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heard of this. So the leeds Burg Stockade what it was? It was
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an event in the civil rights movement in which a group of African American teenage
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and preteen girls were arrested for protesting sec racial segregation in America's Georgia, and
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they were imprisoned without charges for sixty days in the poor conditions in the Lee
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County Public Works Building in lee's Burg, Georgia. So excuse me, so
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again the Leesburg Again, that was an event, the Leesburg Stockade. My
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apologies, y'all, so again just to repeat that for you. It was
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an event in the civil rights movement in which a group of African American teenage
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and preteen girls were arrested for protesting racial segregation in America's Georgia and they were
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imprisoned. Now, mind you listen to this. They were imprisoned without charges
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for sixty days conditions in the Lee County Public Works Building in Leesburg, Georgia.
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So like, can you imagine that you are sitting in a jail with
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no charges for sixty days in poor conditions. I mean, yeah, we
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see that now in this day and age, we do see it. We
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do see these jails, excuse me, that are poor conditions that are housing
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these inmates. I've talked about inmates that have been alived in these county jails.
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I spoke about the young men in Atlanta who died in his cell at
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the being eaten alive by bedbugs. So yet these par conditions don't seem so
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far away from us, and it's still happening in present day. So what
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started this was the fact that in July of nineteen sixty three, the Student
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Non Violent Coordinating Committee or the SNCC, in cooperation with the National Association for
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the Advancement of Color People aka the NAACP, they organized a protest march in
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Americas from the Friendship Baptist Church to a segregated movie theater. As part of
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the protest, a group of young women joined the line to attempt to purchase
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tickets at the movie theater. Excuse me, and we're arrested for doing so.
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After being briefly held in Dawson, Georgia, the protesters were moved to
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the Leesburg Stockade, hence the name the Leesburg Stockade Girls. So here's a
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little intro and give you more a little bit more information about the Leesburg Stockade
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Girls, the Leesburg Stockade incident of nineteen sixty three, the Stolen Girls.
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In July nineteen sixty three, one year before the passage of the Civil Rights
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Act of nineteen sixty four, a group of adolescent African American girls ages twelve
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to fifteen were incarcerated in the Lee County Stockade following their arrest for challenging segregation
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laws. There are some times referred to as the Leesburg Stockage Stolen Girls because
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their parents were never informed of where they were being held. On a hot
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and steamy July evening in nineteen sixty three in America's Georgia, eleven young black
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teen girls went to the white ticket window of the Martin Theatre as part of
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a peaceful protest to openly defy a lifetime of racist segregation customs. The police
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were called, who ordered the youth to disperse. When they failed to do
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so, they were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and blocking the sidewalk.
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The girls were packed into a windowless van and driven away without any confirmation of
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where they were headed. The girls were taken to the town of Dawson,
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thirty miles from Americas, where they spent the night in jail. For many
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of them, it was not their first night in jail. Since it was
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common to arrest black children who were protesting, never formally charged. They were
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jailed as squalid conditions for forty five days in the Leesburg Stockade, a deteriorating
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Civil War era structure waiting in the backwoods of Leesburg, Georgia, only twenty
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miles away. Parents had no knowledge of where authorities were holding their children,
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nor did the girls have any way to contact their parents. The building lacked
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proper plumbing, running water, bedding, and sanitary supplies. The girls were
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ordered inside and found that the interior comprised one narrow cell twelve feet by forty
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feet. It was oppressively hot and infested with spiders and cockroaches. There was
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no furniture other than a pile of decomposing mattresses stacked in a corner. They
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were not fed for the first two days of imprisonment. They survived the following
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days on rashes of undercooked hamburgers and egg sandwiches provided by their jailers. During
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their time in the stockade, more girls joined the originally arrested girls, making
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the living conditions even worse. A month ato their confinement, Danny Lyon,
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a twenty one year old photographer for the student Non Violent Coordinating Committee, learned
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of the girl's whereabouts and sneaked into the stak grounds to take pictures of the
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girls through barred windows. Lion documented the broken toilet and shower and the rough,
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grimy floor of the stycade. His photos were published in a number of
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black owned newspapers and magazines. After national outcry, the girls were released to
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their families, and perhaps the ultimate indignity, many parents later received a bill
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with a charge of two dollars for every day of their child's imprisonment. Many
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of the Leesburg Stolen Girls continued to be active in the Sumter County movement,
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but received little recognition of their struggles. Many of the women are currently speaking
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up about their experiences. The surviving women were nominated for the Presidential Medal of
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Freedom Award in twenty sixteen. Until next time, please like, share,
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comment, and subscribe to the channel press the Bell to be notified of future
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uploads. Thank you for watching. Just imagine. Let me let that soak
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in for just a moment, because just imagine being a twelve year old child
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incarcerated. They say forty five days, but they were actually incarcerated for sixty
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days. You didn't eat for the first two and no one knew where you
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were. You're in this cell with roaches, rats, Just ough, Let
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me take this in for a minute, you know, just these deplorable conditions
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that these children were subjected to. And again, if you go back and
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let me go back to that soul again, these women, well, teams,
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I'm so sorry. So in nineteen sixty three, let me go back.
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July of nineteen sixty three, the SNCC or the Student Non Violent Court
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Committee, in the cooperation with the National Association for the Advancement of Color People,
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organized the protest march in America's Georgia excuse me from the Friendship Baptist Church
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to a segregated movie theater, and as part of the protest, a group
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of young women joined the line to attempt to purchase tickets at the movie theater
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and were arrested for doing so. After they were held briefly in Dawson,
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Georgia, the protesters were then moved to the Leesburg Stockey. They were never
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formally charged. Let me say that first of all, they were never formally
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charged, but they were held for sixty days in deployable conditions, no running
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water, I don't believe the toilet was working, and these girls did not
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eat for the first two days because they weren't given it need food. And
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then after they were giving food they were given undercook hamburgers and egg sandwiches.
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Let me, let me, let me just take a deep breath on heaven,
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because that almost reminds me of what goes on today in present time.
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Again, as I told y'all, slavery just ended one hundred and fifty five
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years ago. Some of us still have ancestors that are still alive, that
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are one hundred years old. You do the math. One hundred and fifty
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five years ago just ended, and we're seeing it and repeat in present time,
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just like when I did the buck breaking episode, that still goes on
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in present time. We see this, men emasculated, we see this.
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So every story that I've covered, we're still seeing this in present time.
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So it has not gone await. But for these girls between the ages of
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twelve and fifteen to be incarcerated for sixty days with no charges indeplorable conditions,
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what's changed? What has changed? Holdo, We got a couple of comments.
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Hold on, heybe, she says, yes, red lips, because
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I'm on fire. Tonight on fire. We're closing out national women's history monk
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talking about the leeds Burg Stockad Girls. A night rider, Hey thank you
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for tuning in. He says, WP are some wicked demons, very much
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so, very much so, and the things that they did to us in
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past time is still going on in present time. But people are not ready
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to have those conversations. A lot of people are not ready to sit down
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and have these conversations, you know. And this is why, like I
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said, when I went to selecting the women that I wanted to discuss this
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month for National Women's History, Monk, this is why I wanted to pull
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out these hidden figures because maybe the people in Georgia may know about this,
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but then you have people out here that don't even know our history. So
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of course I'm gonna always give pay homage to hidden figures. But going back
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to the Leisburg stock Girls again between the ages of twelve and fifteen and then
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when they were finally released, after the photographer caught wind of where they were
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and reported they were released, and then the families had to pay. They
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were sent a bill for two dollars every day that these girls were incarcerated sixty
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times too, that's what one hundred and twenty dollars, so you made and
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let me say this, because they made zero sense to me. So you're
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saying that they had the pay for their time in jail, but you arrested
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them because they were protesting. That makes zero sense to me. So you
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mean to tell me you're gonna arrest me, but I have to pay for
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my time. Okay, Yeah, you released me, but after I had
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been incarcerated for sixty days and then had the audacity to send me a bill
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for one hundred and twenty dollars because you wanted me to pay two dollars for
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every day that I was incarcerated. Because that's what you chose to do.
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But that's how they did us in those times. They still continued to do
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us this same way. Like I said, when I did the story and
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I talked about the depths of the inmates here in Harris County Jail, deplorable
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conditions. When the freeze happened, you had these men incarcerated with no heat,
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no water, no FOD. What's different between nineteen sixty three and twenty
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twenty four. We're still seeing this. It hasn't changed. Only thing that
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changes the day, in the month and the year. Then, when I
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talked about the young man in Atlanta who was eating a lot by bed Bucks
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guards never checked on them these deplorable conditions. No, I'm not saying jail
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is supposed to be club fed. But come on now, we're not in
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the sixties anymore. This is twenty twenty four. But again, only thing
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that changes is the day, the month, and the year. We're still
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seeing this. So and this is what I mean when I say I don't
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understand why y'all aren't upset about these things like this. You know that history
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is repeating itself. We're seeing this all over again. We're seeing exactly what
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our parents and our elders experience, we're now living it in present day.
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But y'all not mad. I just don't understand how y'all not mad? How
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are y'all not mad that we are reliving history? How are y'all not upset?
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Like why are y'all not getting out here protesting for the rights of black
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men and black women? I just don't understand. But y'all will go stand
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in line for iPhones and Jordan's but you won't go in and step for the
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rights of our people. Oh that's right. I forgot Why y'all don't do
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it? Because y'all say, y'all voice doesn't matter. That's right. Oh.
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I know why y'all don't do it because it's not cool to do,
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right, Okay, I just you know, I just want to make sure
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we were clear on that, you know, because it's not cool got you
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cause not getting anything out of it got you. So you say, if
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you don't feel, then don't complain when things don't change for us. You're
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not trying to provide a type of resolution, so don't complain. But anyway,
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that's a whole other conversation. But anyway, back to the Leedsburg Stockade
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girls. Y'all know me. I can go off on a tangent and gonna
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get on my soap box, but sometimes I have to come down. So
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anyway, back to what I was saying. So the Leedsburg Stockade girls again,
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the young ladies, let me get their names pulled. I had them
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pulled back up. I do apologize, y'all. All right, So the
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Leedsburg Stockade Girls. The arrested young ladies included Carol Barnard c. You have
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Gloria breed Love, you have Pearl Brown, Mattie Crintendon, Diane Dorsey,
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you have doctor Shirley Green Reese. You have Verna Howe, Melinda Jones,
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Williams, Annie Lou Reagan's excuse me, Laura Ruff, Sandra Russell, Willie
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May Smith, Billy Joe Thornton, and Lulu M. Westbrook. Those were
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the young ladies that were arrested in nineteen sixty three at a protest at a
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movie theater, who were incarcerated for sixty days without being formally charged. And
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you have the photographer Danny Lyon. Excuse me, so before I go forward,
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So it says some of the prisoners were as young as twelve years old.
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Y'all, ladies and gentlemen, listen to me when I say this.
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Some of the prisoners were as young as twelve years old, twelve incarcerated.
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It's say the conditions in the stockade were poor. The prisoner only had concrete
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floors to sleep on, water only from the drips from the shower, a
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single only one non functional toilet, and poor food so they could only get
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water from the drips of the shower. The toilet did not work. They
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had to sleep on concrete floors. Oh, I forgot. They did have
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mattresses, but they were deteriorating. I'm so sorry I forgot to put that
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in there. The prison authorities did not inform the parents of the prisoners of
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their arrest or their location, and the only way the parents found out about
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where their children were incarcerated was through the help of a janitor. Did y'all
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hear what I said? The prison authorities did not inform the parents of the
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prisoners of their arrest or their location, and they were only found out because
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of a janitor. Hmm. Sounds like what happens in present day, right,
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Okay, Tyree Nichols, m y'all remember that that happened a year ago.
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Parents were the mother was told he was going to they were taking them
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to the hospital, and then from there he was going to jail. H
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history is definitely repeating itself, definitely repeating itself. Then it goes on to
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say the young women were threatened with murder and at one point a rattle snake
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was thrown into their cell. Maybe y'all didn't hear me. Let me say
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it a little loud of for the people in the back. The young women
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were threatened with the murder and at one point they threw a rattlesnake in their
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self. This was in nineteen sixty three. It wasn't too long ago.
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July of nineteen sixty three is when this occurred, was when this even occurred,
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July nineteen sixty three, That's what fifty something years ago. Right.
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Then it goes on to say after the SNCC and the Senator Harrison A.
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Williams used a set of photos that were taken again by Danny Lyon to publicize
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the situation. So when you go back and you think about for photos is
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what helped to get these young ladies released photographs. After sixty days of being
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incarcerated in these deplorable conditions, they were then released and then were sent a
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bill for two dollars a day every day that they spent incarcerated. Night Writer
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says, he said, nineteen sixty three was not that long ago. Brittany
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Brown says, that was sixty one years ago. Sixty one. We have
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parents that are sixty one years old. We have some parents that are older
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than sixty one that went through this, that experienced this. Okay, sixty
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one years ago. Sixty one. Hey, West World Music Group, thank
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you, he says, Hey, beautiful, thank you, my love.
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But like now you're right, if you don't mind, I want to go
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back to your comment nineteen sixty three was not that long ago, sixty one
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years so, which means if slavery ended one hundred and fifty five years ago,
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Now follow me, y'all. Come on, let's do this math together.
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If slavery ended one hundred and fifty five years ago and the Leedsburg Stockade
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girls were arrested in nineteen sixty three, so let's subtract sixty one from one
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to fifty five. So slavery had just ended how long ago prior to this,
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and we're still seeing this in present day? And y'all I'm mad,
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y'all. I'm mad, y'all not mad enough for me that history is repeating
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itself. Y'all not mad enough for me that we're not out here fighting for
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change. Oh that's right, I forgot. Some of y'all feel like our
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voices make no sense, like they don't hear us. Let me tell you
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something. When you go back and you look at our history, history could
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not be anything without black history. Okay, let me just go ahead and
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say that history could not be anything without black history. And with the lineage
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of people that we come behind, you mean to tell me we can't gather
33:37
the strength from the ancestors that paved the way for us to make a change.
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Are you serious? You're telling me baby? Let me say this.
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We come from a long, long line strength of people that fought for the
34:02
rights of us to be where we are to date. And you want to
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know how we pay them back? Tworking, showing our ass not knowing our
34:15
self worth in the schools for men and women. This is how we pay
34:20
our ancestors back. And that's not even what they instilled in us. They
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instilled in us to be strong, they instilled in us to be resilient,
34:31
They instilled in us to stand on business, They instilled in us to believe,
34:36
to stand on everything that we believe in for the rights of black men
34:39
and women, boys and girls. And this is how we repay our ancestors.
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Sad last night when I talked about Florence Johnson, that woman didn't care,
34:59
and I ain't question was why are there not more people like me?
35:07
Why are we not out here advocating for us? Why are we not collectively
35:14
coming together as a people and fighting for the rights. I just don't understand.
35:22
But then you want to be upset, well, why we don't have
35:25
this? Why we don't have that. You want to know why we don't
35:28
have that? Because we can't stick together long enough to try to push things.
35:34
Because we've become lazy, y'all. We become to a point where or
35:38
it doesn't matter, they don't care about us. If two women in Virginia
35:45
can come up with the order of tents and for those that don't remember who
35:51
the order of tents are. This was started by two women who work to
35:58
get loans for black people to start businesses, to provide food, healthcare,
36:04
shelter. Two women, two that were former slaves, two women. So
36:15
can't no one set up here and say what we can't do? Do you
36:20
understand how strong we are together then we are separated, like we are phenomenal
36:27
together. We make magic when we're together. You know, when it's a
36:32
lot of us, we make moves. We make big moves, major moves.
36:39
The ancestors set the path for us to do this. Look at Oscarville
36:45
aka Lake Lanier, which is now Lake Lanier in Georgia to a community of
36:52
two thousand people business owners. Y'all don't hear me. I don't, I
37:02
don't. I don't think y'all really truly understand when I say history would be
37:09
nothing without us. A lot of the things that people have today, we're
37:16
on the strength of us. You stop light your security system, dry clean
37:25
us black people. Let me say that we are some amazing people. I
37:34
really wish we would start acting like we're amazing. I really wish people.
37:42
I really wish black people were standing in the mirror y'all. And let me
37:45
take a deep breath, because y'all know when I get on my soapbox,
37:49
y'all know, I get emotional. But when I talk about us, how
37:52
beautiful we are. Do you understand that we are the bl Do you understand
38:00
we can't be replicated. We started this movement. Our ancestors, our grandparents,
38:09
our great grandparents, fought for us to be where we are to date.
38:14
And look at how we am. Y'all don't appreciate our black history.
38:22
Some of y'all don't. I won't say all, but some some of y'all
38:24
don't appreciate our history. Everything that our ancestors and our elders went through put
38:31
us where we are to date. We are phenomenal people. We are amazing.
38:37
I'm telling you, every time I do an episode and I talk about
38:42
black men, and black women, and I talk about how powerful we are.
38:44
I get so sad when I look at what I see on TV and
38:46
how we are portrayed, and y'all play right into the stereotype. I'm telling
38:53
a story right now about twelve to thirteen, twelve fifteen year old girl us
39:00
who were incarcerated for sixty days in deplorable conditions, no food, no water,
39:06
no toilet, and the parents didn't even know where their children were for
39:09
sixty days. And the only way they found out was because a white man
39:14
came into pictures. And you mean to tell me this is how we move.
39:22
We are strong, we are resilient. Do you understand? Do you
39:28
realize, Black Wall Street? We could rebuild that again if we could only
39:31
stick together, If we could only stick together. Mophisili, thank you for
39:43
tuning in tonight. God bless you, he says. True. Knight Writer
39:47
says, way too many BP love integration and it doesn't work. We were
39:51
never meant to be integrated with w people. People don't understand that, but
39:58
they walk all over us and we accept it. Everything that we have in
40:04
the world was built on our backs. We had schools, y'all, Black
40:08
Wall Street, let me just take us down memory like we had businesses,
40:15
we had schools, hospitals, libraries. They're trying to make us. They
40:23
want to erase our history, and we're gonna let them because no one wants
40:30
to say anything, because it's not cool to get out there and fight and
40:36
advocate for the rights of black people. We don't even have a law,
40:43
and they're still killing us in present day. We don't even have a law,
40:47
but the Asians got a law. And who's targeted the most, the
40:55
very same people that look like me and you. They always say, oh,
41:00
if y'all just do what you're told, Okay, we've done that.
41:07
We we gotta stick together, and not just when it's cool. We gotta
41:20
move in numbers and we gotta stick together. We gotta make them listen to
41:24
us. Okay, so we're not invited, we gotta make We gotta push
41:29
our way in, or we build our own tables. Sometimes we gotta build
41:36
on our own house. But we're so focused on going where we're trying to
41:44
fit in with everybody, instead of going where we're celebrating and appreciated. The
41:50
Leedsburg Stockad girls, they showed us that Claudete Covin showed us that Rosa Parks
42:02
was not the face of the bus boycott. She was not the original person.
42:07
But lot of y'all don't know that because that's what textbook taught you.
42:15
Florence Kennedy stood for the rights of women, black women, Debbie Allen paved
42:30
the way for black dancers, Felicia Rashad, Diane Carroll. The list goes
42:44
on, Alexa Kennedy, Henrietta a Lax. I can go on and all.
42:55
I can go on and on and on and on and on. When
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I did the story and I talked about Oscarville, which is now known as
43:04
Lakeland Neer, a city of two thousand black people. Two thousand black people
43:09
that we're business owners, had their own businesses until the white people say,
43:16
I I, we can't let them have that much power. So they flooded
43:23
it. They lied and said these men raped a white woman. So they
43:30
came and they burned it down. They drug one of the men's body through
43:36
the town, and again, we don't do anything. The Leedsburg Stockade girls
43:52
said, we don't care. We're gonna go to the movies. We're gonna
43:58
stage your protest. And they were arrested and incarcerated for sixty days. Sixty
44:07
days most Offha says, hold it together's sister, When I tell you,
44:12
when I talk about us, it sends a cheer right up down my spine
44:15
because I look at us as a people, and we are so beautiful,
44:20
we are so amazing, We're smart, we're intelligent. But some but we
44:27
walk around here like we're done and that's how they want us to believe that
44:32
we're dumb and we're less than and we fall right into the stereotypes. But
44:40
some of y'all ain't ready to have that conversation. See me, I'm gonna
44:45
have that conversation. See me, I'm gonna wake stuff up like that.
44:47
I'm here to offend. Doesn't matter to me, and I do this consistently.
44:52
I don't do it because it's cool. I don't do it because oh
44:55
I'm trying to get lights. And I do this because I live by this.
45:01
I'm always standing on the side of right and wrong when it comes to
45:04
us. I'm always hold us accountable when we're wrong. I'm always do that.
45:13
Mister Mustapa says, we got trapped, and we're still trapped. We're
45:19
still trapped, mister Musapa says, we are hostages with privileges, and we
45:25
are everything that we see right now. Who do you think they got it
45:34
from? They got it from us, but they just had to put their
45:37
name on it, and we allowed them. We still allow them to do
45:43
that. Mister Mustapha says, build a country within one of righteous nation.
45:51
Absolutely. Knight Writer says, build our own We have to know to do
45:55
it. We've done it before and we could do it again. And we
45:59
can and was successful, Lake Oscarville successful, Tolsa, Oklahoma successful. You
46:08
cannot tell me that we cannot build our own community again, schools, libraries,
46:16
grocery stores, hospitals. Shall I continue? N Writer says, white
46:25
rage and jealousy, and it still goes on today. Unfortunately, it still
46:30
happens today. They don't want to see us get ahead. They don't want
46:37
to see us doing better. We see this in corporate America. They'll hire
46:45
someone that doesn't look like you, with less experience and pay them more than
46:47
you, and you'll train them. But I'll say that for a whole other
46:53
conversation. Mister Mustapa says, it's they plot, but God is the best
47:00
of planners. Everything happens for a reason God allows it to happen. Amen
47:05
to that, Amen to that. Night writer says, some BP, not
47:12
all, but enough have normalized our captivity. And they do, and they
47:17
do. That's why when you look at these young ladies right here, they
47:28
fought and they will stood being sixty days in captivity, and even in present
47:34
time they still continue to fight. We just don't hear about it because you
47:39
know what, it's not in our textbooks, So we won't know about this
47:45
until we go to the library. Right. Oh, that's right. They're
47:49
destroying libraries, they're getting rid of them. So the Leedesburg stocka girls again,
48:02
these young women, young women were released and then I faced any criminal
48:07
charges, but were nevertheless charges of fee for their use of the facilities.
48:17
So let me make this make sense. So you mean to tell me this
48:23
group of protesters were arrested in July nineteen sixty three, Okay, no formal
48:31
charges, were never charged. Were held in deplorable conditions, no running water,
48:43
a toilet that didn't work, They slept on concrete floors. And then
48:54
when they were released, they were sent a bill. How mighty white of
49:00
them, how mighty white of them, both figure and like mister knight Rider
49:15
said, nineteen sixty three was not that long ago, sixty one years ago,
49:22
slavery end of one hundred and fifty five, allegedly, because we still
49:30
see it. Look at your police officers, we still see it in present
49:40
day. And y'all I'm mad, y'all, not upset, y'all still not
49:50
trying to collect them to come together and build our own really gotcha? So
50:00
says there are also too many gatekeepers for ws among BP, too many sellers.
50:06
Absolutely, but you know not, writer, that's the way that they
50:12
have us condition and we still live in the crabs in the barrel mentality still
50:20
sad to say. And with the lineage of people that we come from,
50:25
the lineage of people that we come from, we come from some survivors,
50:31
we come from resilience, we come from strength, we come from power.
50:36
Baby, but y'all refuse to utilize it. I tell you all the time,
50:40
you have a gift, you have a purpose, use it, use
50:46
that not, Writer says legalized slavery thirteenth Amendment. Oh yes, very familiar.
51:00
We have all these gifts and these talents, and we continue to waste
51:04
them. Why what are you afraid of? I want to see every person
51:17
go read about our history. And I don't mean the textbook history. I'm
51:22
not talking about what they teach us in school. I'm talking about go learn
51:24
your real, real, true Black history. Everything that I've discussed still goes
51:32
on in present day. They still have these little sundown towns a lake Lanier.
51:44
The ancestors have told y'all stop going, but y'all continue to go.
52:01
Here's another story with regards to the Leesburg Stockade girls, and we're gonna get
52:07
back into the conversation or it's not over. So this is where you live.
52:13
This is where I reveiled. When Shirley Reese was just a teenager,
52:16
she was brought here to what's known as the Leesburg Stockade in Leesburg, Georgia.
52:22
It was July nineteen sixty three, the height of the Civil Rights era.
52:25
This floor is a lot nicer. Oh my god, Yes, this
52:30
was filthy. You had blankets, dirty blankets when we came in here.
52:36
Surely just turned seventy five, but has never forgotten this stockade. She was
52:39
one of fourteen girls ages twelve to fifteen that were brought here. Shirley and
52:45
some of the others tried to buy movie tickets at a theater window reserved for
52:47
white people in Americas, a small town in South Georgia not far from Leesburg.
52:53
During that time, blacks were not allowed to go through the front door
53:00
of the month theater. But when she and the others tried to buy tickets
53:02
from that window, they called the police. He said, all of you
53:07
all are on the arrest. Little did surely know, but Carol Barner Say
53:10
had also been arrested days earlier during a march in Americas. She was thirteen
53:15
at the time. Once you were in the paddywagon, did they tell you
53:19
why you were in why you had been picked up? First of all,
53:22
look at me, look at me, and somebody owed me an explanation.
53:30
They're gonna give me an explanation. Carol was jailed in Americus until the sheriff
53:34
found another option. The sheriff made a call to Dawson, Georgia, and
53:40
he asked the sheriff there, hey, good buddy, could you house my
53:46
niggas for a while. Carol was briefly moved to a jail in not far
53:52
away Dawson, before eventually being taken to the Leesburg Stockade about eighteen miles away.
53:58
That's where she and the other girls spent two months, sixty long days
54:02
in rough conditions, bugs, no beds and no working shower or toilet,
54:07
no lights, no water to drink. All they had were the clothes on
54:13
their backs and some hamburgers delivered daily by a stranger, and the wrapping from
54:17
those hamburgers. The wrapping front of hamburgers were used as toilet paper. We
54:22
never had a roll of tilet paper. The whole time we was in there.
54:29
We had no idea where we were. We didn't know we was in
54:34
Lee's Burg. I I you didn't want to go to no lee's Burg.
54:39
Lee's Burd was known as lynch Bird, a lynch black people on the trees.
54:49
Did you think you were ever going to get out? I didn't ever
54:52
think we would get out until one day a young photographer named Danny Lyons showed
54:57
up. He was with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which focused on student
55:01
involvement in civil rights. Lion had received a tip about the girls in the
55:06
stockade. Carol remembers him signaling them with the peace sign and a single word
55:12
freedom. If you was living in segregation, born in segregation, slept,
55:20
segregation, ate, segregated, went to church, segregated freedom meant everything to
55:27
you. You wouldn't have a reason to use that word if you was your
55:35
color, But if it was my color, it meant a lot. Okay,
55:39
that was a symbol to us that he was dead to do us no
55:45
harm. And then it line would come around the building. I was right
55:50
here in this conor. I said, who are you? What's your name?
55:55
He's Pquaiet. I said, take my pigion. This is where I
55:59
was. I mean, just imagine this in nineteen sixty three, were standing
56:05
at these bars, these bars. Did it feel like a prison? I
56:08
was a prison. The photos Danny Lyon took of the Leesburg Stockade girls grabbed
56:14
national attention. They were published in Jet magazine and eventually made their way to
56:20
the halls of Congress, which took action. They told them to release those
56:24
girls immediately, and that's how we got out because of Danny Lyons. The
56:30
girls were freed mid September nineteen sixty three after missing for months. My mom,
56:37
you know, she hugging on me. We'd been gone for two months
56:43
and we haven't had a bad The Leesburg Stockade girls were never charged with a
56:49
crime. Carol says she has no regrets it should have made me bitter,
56:55
but I stay here to day to tell you it made me better and it
57:00
continued to make me better. Sureley says it made her stronger. She graduated
57:06
college and got a master's degree as well as her PhD. And about that
57:09
young man Danny Lyon who photographed the girls all those years ago, you're still
57:14
in touch with him today, right, yes? And that's what would you
57:16
describe him as a friend? Oh, my goodness, that's my best friend.
57:39
Well, this is what I mean when I see how strong we are
57:44
as a people. Those girls, they were girls at the time, They
57:50
weren't women. They were young girls between the ages of twelve and fifteen who
57:53
were incarcerated for sixty days, sixty days, and not one time did they
58:12
ever complain. They got out and like she said, it didn't make me
58:22
better, It made me better. It made me stronger. And this is
58:27
what I mean when I say we come from a lineage of people who have
58:34
endured things that we wouldn't even be strong enough to go through in this day
58:39
and time. So to see the things that we do as a people to
58:49
each other, it makes me sick because this is not what they fall for.
58:58
This is not what they laid out for us. You get what I'm
59:00
saying. They wanted it to be better for us, but we can't see
59:07
that. I look at like I said yesterday, I'm so sorry Tuesday when
59:17
I talked about Florence Kennedy and God gave her the voice to stand on business
59:31
for people that look like me and you. And No, I don't proclaim
59:37
to speak for every black person, but I'll fight for us. I'll advocate
59:45
for us, and not because it's cool or because everybody else is doing it.
59:52
I do it because I'm raising three black children in this world. Do
59:59
I want my children to go through what our ancestors went through? Absolutely?
1:00:01
And not. Do I want to leave a legacy for my children. Do
1:00:07
I want land for my children? Absolutely? I don't want to. I
1:00:09
don't want Jordan's for my children. I want something my children can own,
1:00:15
something that can't nobody take away from them. I want to live long enough
1:00:22
to see Black Wall Street rebuilt again. I want to live long enough where
1:00:29
I see more black schools, where I see black owned businesses. I want
1:00:34
to see more of that. I want to see more black entrepreneurs. I
1:00:39
want to see that. I want to live long enough to a point where
1:00:45
we finally can come together as a community and really thrive without all the hate.
1:00:53
That's what I want to see for black people. I was asked the
1:00:59
other day was I racist? And I said why? Because I advocate for
1:01:05
the people that look like me. Don't you advocate for people that look like
1:01:07
you? So how am I racist? Because I'm always protect what looks like
1:01:15
me. First, call me whatever you want, But I know where I
1:01:23
come from, I know my lineage. Some ione stand on business when it
1:01:30
comes to my black men and my black women, Oh yeah, I am.
1:01:37
I want beautiful and better for us as people, where we're not arguing
1:01:45
and fighting and killing one another. I want to see that. I want
1:01:52
us to be as strong and resilient as these Leedsburg stockade girls again fourteen young
1:01:59
ladies incarcerated sixty days. Night Writer says Lake Lanier like the elder elders.
1:02:15
You to say stay away from there, because, baby, if you notice,
1:02:20
every time somebody goes to Lake Lanier, something bad always happens. Night
1:02:28
Writer says integration with the WP was not better, and it's still not WP.
1:02:32
Don't want BP to have anything, don't believe it, ask WP,
1:02:37
do BP deserve reparations for the non paid labors of our ancestors? And you
1:02:42
know what, night writer you, I'm so glad you brought that up because
1:02:45
I spoke on that when I talked about buck breaking. If you go back
1:02:50
and you watch my episode on buck breaking, a lot of people are like,
1:02:52
Oh, that doesn't or that just happened back. No, baby,
1:02:55
that still happens today. But they don't feel like we deserve that. They
1:03:02
really don't. They still have, you know, the little sun downtowns that
1:03:09
we're not allowed to go in. I live in Houston Vider, Texas.
1:03:15
I don't care what anybody says. Oh, ER's not. Yes, they
1:03:17
are drive through Viterer at night and see what happened. You have a lot
1:03:25
of sun downtowns, Jasper. Look what happened to James Bird? They didn't
1:03:34
teach you that? And textbooks did they? They didn't. So I ask
1:03:45
yourself, do you know your history? Do you know your real true history?
1:03:52
A lot of us don't know because we're going off a textbook because we
1:03:55
don't go to the libraries anymore. Oh that's right, they don't really have
1:03:58
many around And like you're saying, not, writer, They still don't want
1:04:05
us intricate, integrated. They still don't again. Nineteen sixty three wasn't so
1:04:16
far away. It wasn't so far away, and I wasn't And it's still
1:04:24
going on. We still experienced racism in present day. They still lock us
1:04:32
up for no reason. Again. The Leesburg Stockade girls incarcerated for sixty days,
1:04:46
all because they refuse to go to the back to buy tickets. They
1:04:54
were gonna make a way, and what happened, They locked them up.
1:05:04
Claudette Covin I spoke on her for Black History Monk, and this woman is
1:05:12
well in her eighties and was just taking off approbation just a few years ago.
1:05:20
She was arrested at fifteen years old in Alabama the Montgomery bus boycott.
1:05:26
And the reason they didn't use her face is because number one, she was
1:05:29
fifteen years old, she was dark skinned, she was pregnant, and she
1:05:31
was loud, so they used Rosa parks. She was married, she was
1:05:39
all smoked, spoken, and she was light skinned. This is still going
1:05:45
on. Night writer says, there's a book on sun downtowns. They are
1:05:53
alive and well to this day. Absolutely. I'm about an hour and a
1:05:57
half away from Vider. I'm probably about two and a half aways from Jasper,
1:06:04
very familiar. But these Leedsburg Stockade Girls, strength, resilience, courageous,
1:06:27
so many names that I could give these young ladies that are still active
1:06:30
today, still active today, just like the Order of Tents that was founded
1:06:44
by two slaves to help black people get business loans, provide healthcare, shelter
1:06:53
food. Two women started that who were former slaves. So if the Leedsburg
1:07:05
Stockade Girls could survive sixty days and the Order of Tens two women could start
1:07:15
a secret society that still goes on today in Virginia, we could do the
1:07:20
same now in present day. We could do that. So to the Leesburg
1:07:31
Stockade Girls, another Black Girl Interrupted, Hidden Figure, thank you for what
1:07:40
you ladies have done. Thank you ladies for showing us what strength, couraging
1:07:47
resilience looks like. As we close out another episode of Black Girl Interrupted,
1:08:00
like Girl Interrupted, as we close out National Women's History, Monk, I
1:08:03
challenge everyone to find a hidden figure and do your research about that person.
1:08:09
Learn your history, learn what's fact and what's fiction. Learn about things that
1:08:15
they don't teach you in textbooks. Teach your future generation their history. Don't
1:08:27
be ashamed of where we come from, because look at where we come from.
1:08:33
Ugly story with beautiful people. H I love it. I love love,
1:08:46
love, love love love it. I love our history. It wasn't
1:08:54
always beautiful, but it made a strong, made us resilient, It made
1:09:04
us powerful. It gave us the strength to endure anything that's thrown our way.
1:09:14
So absolutely, I will never be ashamed of my history. Again,
1:09:19
it wasn't always beautiful, it wasn't pink roses and rainbows, but through those
1:09:29
storms it bred some amazing people, some icons that are very pivotal, pivotable
1:09:40
in black history. Will I ever stopped speaking about us, Not until God
1:09:45
tells me I have to. Well, I always have episodes like this,
1:09:50
Absolutely, well, I always have uncomfortable conversations. Absolutely. Will I always
1:09:59
hold up accountable without blaming anybody else? Absolutely, It's okay to hold black
1:10:06
men and black women accountable? But can we do it through love? Can
1:10:15
I correct you when you're wrong and you not be offended? See some of
1:10:23
us feel like we're above correction. No you're not. You'll let the person
1:10:29
that looks like this correct you, but you'll get upset when I do it.
1:10:32
Why will our mentality of the Will the mentality of our people ever change?
1:10:41
I hope. So will we one day come together and unite for the
1:10:47
greater of our community? I hope. So. I pray for that every
1:10:51
day I look at us and and I just how beautiful of a peace but
1:11:00
we are? No One can never take our history away from us, no
1:11:06
matter how many times they try to rewrite it. You'll never change the trajectory
1:11:12
of our history. You'll never be able to take away what we've paid the
1:11:16
way for. You'll never take that from us. Do I want us to
1:11:24
continue what role was paid for us? Absolutely? When I go back and
1:11:30
I look at pictures of Chicago nineteen sixty five, when I go back and
1:11:34
I look at us in the seventies, and how beautiful of a people we
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are, how beautiful our culture is. Why can't we do that now?
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Why can't we come together as a people? Why? Why is every conversation
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disrespecting black men and black women? Why why do we still tear one another
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down? We've been beat down enough. Why do we keep doing it?
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Do I want to be a part of the change. Absolutely? Do I
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encourage others to be a part of the change. Absolutely, because we have
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children that we have to leave something behind for a legacy. We have to
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build a brand, leave a legacy for our children, for their children and
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their babies to come after, and after and so on and so forth.
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What I love to see Oscarville rebuilt after what I love to see the towns
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rebuilt in Florida that were only for us. Absolutely I would. But the
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only way that's gonna happen is if we change our mentality. That's the only
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way it's gonna happen. Through genuine love. The only way we're gonna change
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if we stop doing one another as a competition and start viewing one another as
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that's my brother, as my sister, like night Writer said early, if
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we stop gatekeeping, you'll pay others, but you won't pay ones that look
1:13:17
like you for the same information that you need. It's disheartening to me that
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we hold all this power, the knowledge, the strength, and the courage
1:13:33
and we don't utilize it. We'd rather sit and talk about drugs and guns
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instead of empowering our communities. We'd rather stay separated than to rebuild our villages.
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When community is cared, that's what y'all would rather do. I pray
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that before God takes me, that I get to see that. I pray
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that I live long enough to see the change that I want for us.
1:14:14
I pray that God continues to give me the strength and the courage to empower
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somebody, to uplift somebody, to encourage you, to push you to your
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fullest and your highest potential. Because I see your power. All of us
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are born with a gift. Some of us just refuse to utilize it.
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And that's the part that I don't understand. Maybe it's not meant for me
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to understand. I don't know. There's my brother. Let's get a GA
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says three hundred subsists. Congrats, I'm working there. I'm getting there.
1:14:49
You know I'm getting there. Night writer says, wonderful job, says,
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keep up the excellent work. Love your passion for your people. Absolutely,
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Because if I don't care about us, who does? If I don't speak
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for us, who does. If I don't get out here in march and
1:15:09
protests and advocate for us, who else does? I want to protect the
1:15:16
rights of us. I want change for us. I want laws set forth
1:15:21
for us. Do I want reparations for us? Absolutely? We're old that
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do I want my forty acres and a mule. Hell, I want eighty
1:15:29
and two mules. How about that? No writer says the love of money
1:15:34
and materialism is a big issue in the community. Absolutely, and that's how
1:15:39
they get us. That mighty dollar the root of all evil, and we
1:15:47
play right into it every time. When are we gonna change? When are
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we gonna wake up and grow as a people? Please let that happen.
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I pray to God every day. Please let that happen before my eyes closed.
1:16:08
Please let me see us marching and protesting and fighting for change and communities
1:16:16
being rebuilt. I'm so tired of driving through my old neighborhoods and I see
1:16:21
all these abandoned houses, bacont buildings that could be for the greater good for
1:16:28
our community. I want more black banks so we can get more loans to
1:16:36
open businesses without all the red tea. I want more doctors, lawyers,
1:16:43
police officers, firefighters that look like me and you. I want more of
1:16:48
that. I really wish we would love ourselves more than what we do.
1:16:56
I really wish that we would value ourselves more than what we do, especially
1:17:00
black women. That's what I want for us. I love y'all so much,
1:17:06
and I don't even think y'all even understand the love, the capacity of
1:17:11
love that I have for our community. That's why I do what I do,
1:17:18
That's why I have these conversations, That's why I bring these topics because
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I know we're better, We're not what you see on TV. Every day.
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I pray for constant change, more love, more respect, and strength.
1:17:47
And those are my final thoughts for tonight. So for the upcoming episodes
1:17:57
for a Black Girl Interrupted next month, it's going to be very triggering,
1:18:04
but we're getting into sexual assault awareness next month, as I stayd earlier.
1:18:10
At the beginning of the show, Will I be speaking with regards to shun
1:18:15
Puffy Combs. Absolutely absolutely. I will be speaking on incests. I will
1:18:30
be given my two cents on the Nickelodeon documentary required on the set. That
1:18:39
will be a two part episode. And I won't just be speaking about women.
1:18:45
I'll be speaking on men as well, because men are sexual assault victims
1:18:50
as well. And to the men that are victims of sexual abuse, I
1:18:58
see you. I'll be the voice for you. I'll be advocating for you.
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So it's gonna get real deep next month. For April. I'm already
1:19:18
getting choked up in emotional on the inside right now, just even thinking about
1:19:24
next month's conversations. Night Writer says, there was a time when black people
1:19:32
were self respecting, dignified people. We've got to find our way back to
1:19:36
our morals, ethics, and values. Night Writer, thank you because we
1:19:54
were go back and look at some of those pictures from the nineteen sixties and
1:19:58
how well to do black women dressed in black men dressed. We don't even
1:20:05
carry or conduct ourselves in appropriate manners, And then you wonder why they call
1:20:13
us animals. We act like it, and I want you. I don't
1:20:27
know where we got lost. I don't know what happened, but I pray,
1:20:32
like night Writer says, that we find our way back tomorrow's ethics,
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values, and respect not only for us but for others, because there is
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none, absolutely not. Oh hm again, I just want to say thank
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y'all for all the love, all the support that y'all show me every week
1:21:13
through each and every episode. I am forever grateful and humbled by the love
1:21:21
that y'all pour into me each and every episode. Even outside of Black Girl
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to take it to another level again. Today is Thursday. I hope everyone
1:22:42
has a beautiful weekend. I pray that everyone gets a chance to relax,
1:22:47
relate, release, and reset. Don't carry what happened yesterday into tomorrow's day
1:22:56
because you can't change what happened to date. Just focus on tomorrow. Whatever
1:23:00
storm you're standing in the midst of, I pray that you grow through,
1:23:02
not go through, but grow through. I pray that whatever hump is keeping
1:23:08
you hindered, I pray that you get over it. I pray that you
1:23:12
learn how to move around it. I pray that you learn how to stay
1:23:15
the course and not give up just because you're fall down. I pray that
1:23:19
you stop doing one another as a competition and as your brother, as your
1:23:23
sister. I pray that you allow God to move on his time and not
1:23:27
yours. I pray that beautiful prayer in Jesus' name. Amen. I love
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you, guys. I will see you guys Tuesday. Please take a break,
1:23:38
y'all. Please decompress, Please take care of your mental you. Black
1:23:42
man, let me say this to you. I love you. When the
1:23:46
world says you're not enough, I feel like you're everything. Black men,
1:23:53
if you are struggling mentally, please go get help. Please do not suffer
1:23:58
alone. Please please please please know that you always have a safe space here
1:24:03
on Black Girl Interrupted Podcast. This is a judgment free zone. Please,
1:24:09
black men, I want you to know that I advocate for your mental health.
1:24:12
I want you black men to know that, as a black mother,
1:24:16
I apologize to my black women. Hould your head up and adjust that crown,
1:24:24
and please walk like the queen that you are. Please know your self
1:24:28
worth and your value. Please please, please, Ladies and gentlemen, take
1:24:34
care of yourself and put yourself first. Don't worry about what others have to
1:24:39
say. I say you're everything, and I feel like you're great. I
1:24:45
love you guys again, thank you for tuning in to another episode of Black
1:24:48
Girl Interrupted. I will see you guys next Tuesday, same time, eight
1:24:53
thirty pm Central Time, nine thirty Eastern time. Again every Tuesday, every
1:24:57
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1:25:09
I love y'all, and I hope everyone has a beautiful weekend. And
1:25:11
I'll see y'all next week. I love you. Mm hmm