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Chris Paul, DJ Envy and Gizelle Bryant discuss HBCUs and The Chris Paul Family Foundation · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, This is Gazelle Bryant, one half of the
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  Speaker 1: hit podcast Reasonably Shady on the Black Effect Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 1: You also might know me as one of the stars
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  Speaker 1: of the Real Housewives of Potomac. But today it's all
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  Speaker 1: about being reasonable with no shade required. I'll be sitting
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  Speaker 1: down for a conversation with a few names you know,
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  Speaker 1: including another member of the Black Effect family, DJ Envy.
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  Speaker 1: He's a radio Hall of Famer and a founding member
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  Speaker 1: of the Breakfast Club. We're getting together to talk about
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  Speaker 1: historically black colleges and universities HBCUs, one of my favorite subjects.
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  Speaker 1: NV and I are both Hampton University alumni, and we
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  Speaker 1: carry so much pride for the school that helps shape
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  Speaker 1: us into what we are today. We hope that many
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  Speaker 1: more kids across the country can share the same experiences
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  Speaker 1: that we did, and our special guest feels exactly the
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  Speaker 1: same way. NBA superstar Chris Paul is working to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that the next generation of black excellence will thrive.
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  Speaker 1: Since two thousand and five, the Chris Paul Family Foundation
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  Speaker 1: has been striving to positively impact individuals and families by
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  Speaker 1: leveling the playing field and education, sports and life. So
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  Speaker 1: let's learn a little bit more about Chris's foundation and
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  Speaker 1: why HBCUs mean so much to him. Here's our conversation,
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  Speaker 1: presented by State Farm, like a good neighbor. State Farm
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  Speaker 1: is there. Hey, what up? Y'all's dj V and I'm
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  Speaker 1: here with my sister, Gizelle Briant, my Hampton alumni sister.
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  Speaker 1: Now we both intended an HBCU, all right, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years apart, which I was a little older than me.
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  Speaker 1: I would have to say. But but you know, let's
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  Speaker 1: start off with you know h BCU. Get why did
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  Speaker 1: you decide to attend an HBCU. You know, NV, I
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  Speaker 1: have to tell you, I really lucked up on going
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  Speaker 1: to an HPCU. My dad went to a black college,
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  Speaker 1: and he was nudging me in that direction. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know it, but he was. You know, my dad was
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  Speaker 1: very influential in the civil rights movement. He's all about
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  Speaker 1: empowering the black community and doing what's best for us.
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  Speaker 1: But when I got there is when I figured out
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  Speaker 1: I was where I was supposed to be. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was looking around and I was seeing people that
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  Speaker 1: had the same background as me, that looked like me,
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  Speaker 1: that talk like me. Thought like me, and I realized, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is special, right, this is family, This is a
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  Speaker 1: community that cares about each other. And you know, black people,
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  Speaker 1: we live different, we love different, we learned different. So
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  Speaker 1: I was at a place where I was learning with
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  Speaker 1: people that knew how to learn like I knew how
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  Speaker 1: to learn. Got you. It was an experience that I'm
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  Speaker 1: so grateful for. You know, you know you're running too
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  Speaker 1: people all the time. They went to Hampton and they
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  Speaker 1: running the point you're like hampted class or whatever, and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's pride, it's legacy. Um. Now my children are
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  Speaker 1: all in high school, have three girls, have Chris how
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  Speaker 1: you know? I have three girls and they're looking at
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  Speaker 1: at colleges and unlike me, they're not lucking up on
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  Speaker 1: an HPCU. They're looking for which black college is best
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  Speaker 1: for them. So I'm super excited about that because they
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  Speaker 1: understand how important special it is. You know, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: the energy, it's the you can't really explain the feeling.
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  Speaker 1: I have to live it, and they want that experience
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  Speaker 1: for themselves. So I'm so excited about it. Yeah, for myself,
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  Speaker 1: I was the only the first person of my family
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  Speaker 1: to go to college and graduate. So I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a choice. I had to go to HBCU. My parents
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  Speaker 1: was like, you don't have a choice. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: I went to Hampton is because I watched The Different
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  Speaker 1: World and Hillman is based off Hampton, and that's all
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  Speaker 1: I knew. So I was like, I want to go there.
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  Speaker 1: That's where I want to go. That's where I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go, and that's why I decided to go to
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  Speaker 1: Hampton University. Now we have Chris Paul here, and Chris
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  Speaker 1: Paul has the Family Foundation which really really pushes different communities,
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  Speaker 1: definitely our communities. And if you follow Chris Paul or
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  Speaker 1: you watch Chris Paul and you watch his games, he
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  Speaker 1: always reps HBCUs, different HBCUs, different games, and he pushes
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  Speaker 1: it to the next level. So let's let's ask you
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  Speaker 1: a question, Chris Paul. Since you didn't go to an HBCU,
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  Speaker 1: why do you feel it's so important to you know,
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  Speaker 1: push HBCUs and to make sure HBCUs are heard and seen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, thank you all for having me. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you man, big fan and NBA, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even know you went to Hampton and for me, I
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  Speaker 1: grew up in Winston Salto North Carolina, so I grew
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  Speaker 1: up around HBCUs. Right, So I grew up around Ant Central,
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  Speaker 1: win Salem State, all these different schools. My brother actually
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  Speaker 1: went to Hampton his freshman year and played basketball at Hampton.
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  Speaker 1: So I grew up around all these different HBCUs. But
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  Speaker 1: when I was a kid, I didn't know that there
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  Speaker 1: was a difference between Wait for US and Winston Salem State,
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  Speaker 1: if that makes sense. And so I'm actually a student
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  Speaker 1: right now at Winston Salem State, right. Wow. Yeah, So
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  Speaker 1: I went two years at Wait for US, then I
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  Speaker 1: went to the NBA. But I'm taking classes right now,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully graduating in December from Winston Salem State University. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, they say when you know better, you do better.
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  Speaker 1: I started doing a lot of research on HBCUs and
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  Speaker 1: started understanding why they even exists, right, So a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people don't know why I exist in the funding
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  Speaker 1: and all these different things. I went to a class
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  Speaker 1: at Harvard a few summers ago, maybe five six years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and it was this dope class about business entertainment and
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  Speaker 1: all of this, and I was like, it's dope class,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't offer that HBCUs actually talked to the
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  Speaker 1: professor at Harvard and we started it and now we
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  Speaker 1: have that same class at North Carolina ante at Clark Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're doing at FAMU, and it's about exposure.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you that, you know, um, the
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  Speaker 1: one thing I would say about HBCUs, A lot of
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  Speaker 1: times they don't have the funding right And just like
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  Speaker 1: my daughter, she goes to NYU and not because she
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  Speaker 1: wanted to, but because she wanted to major real estate,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of the HBCUs didn't have that as
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  Speaker 1: a major where they teach you. How So, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think HBCUs need to do to make sure they
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  Speaker 1: catch up with some of those other universities that you name,
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  Speaker 1: like a Harvard or Yale or an NYU. What do
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  Speaker 1: you what do you? What do you think? Yeah, one
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  Speaker 1: of the things I always say is you see people
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  Speaker 1: wrapping the gear and all this stuff like that, but
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  Speaker 1: you need real dollars and cents. But I think also
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  Speaker 1: we got to keep coming together and make sure everybody
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  Speaker 1: knows who went where, you know what I mean. I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of times, I know, for me in
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  Speaker 1: the sports department, HBCUs didn't recruit me, not saying I
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  Speaker 1: all to went there, but now wherever you go to school,
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  Speaker 1: the media will come, right. So the more people that
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  Speaker 1: know that you can go to these HBCUs and be
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  Speaker 1: unbelievably successful. I did an interview with Spike Lee about
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  Speaker 1: a year ago talking about HBCUs and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Will Will Packer went to FAM. You, so, just understanding
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  Speaker 1: all the history behind these HBCUs and really champion them
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  Speaker 1: and get the funding because you need money. You need
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  Speaker 1: money to do all these different things. You need the resources.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of these different pwis have that funding because
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  Speaker 1: when people graduate, they go and they come give money back, right,
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  Speaker 1: So we got to try to continue to get the
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  Speaker 1: funding to get some of these school these courses. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: but why do you think that the great kids coming
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  Speaker 1: out of high school playing basketball, playing football, they're not
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  Speaker 1: choosing a black college. So I'll tell you this. So
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  Speaker 1: when I came out, right, I came out of high
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  Speaker 1: school in two thousand and three, that wasn't the pathway, right,
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  Speaker 1: It just wasn't, you know, it was the blue bloods.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna go to Duke, You're gonna go to Carolina
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  Speaker 1: because that was the only way you could get that exposure.
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  Speaker 1: But now with social media and all this stuff, I'm
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  Speaker 1: always talking to kids about. Look, imagine if y'all top three,
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  Speaker 1: top four players all went to North Carolina Central and
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  Speaker 1: played for Lavelle Moten. Imagine that esp ain't got to come,
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  Speaker 1: they got to come. So the education of it, and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's gradually changing. You know what I'm saying. It's
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  Speaker 1: not something that's gonna happen overnight, but I think if
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  Speaker 1: we keep doing we're doing and talking about it is
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  Speaker 1: bound to happen. You know, I was gonna ask, you know,
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  Speaker 1: also a week in this year, you know the All
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  Speaker 1: Star festivities, and you know they have the Rookie child
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  Speaker 1: is the Slam Dunk and then the All Star This year,
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  Speaker 1: you guys put an HBCU game in the middle of that.
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  Speaker 1: What made you guys decide to do that? I mean
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  Speaker 1: they call me the DJ this year. I'm like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: DJ and that went last year, But I mean I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was stope. So what made you guys decide
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  Speaker 1: to do that? And I know you are heavy with
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  Speaker 1: pushing that to make sure that was done. Just understand
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  Speaker 1: our power and our influence, right, Just telling the league.
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  Speaker 1: What we would like to see it all started back
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  Speaker 1: with the bubble and just you know, trying to give
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  Speaker 1: these kids and stuff. You know, our league is you
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  Speaker 1: know what, seventy seventy five African American, maybe more so
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  Speaker 1: understanding that these kids, that these HBCUs, they need the platform,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what we're trying to provide. I think that
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  Speaker 1: UM as a place to the athletes, Yes, for sure,
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  Speaker 1: the school needs to do more to even make it nice,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. They need to need to
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  Speaker 1: pay the coaches more. They need to put the resources
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  Speaker 1: in for the training. They need to do a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot to make the sports even attractive. Right, But but
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  Speaker 1: the US need funding for all the department correct correct
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  Speaker 1: when when they are graduates from black colleges, they've got
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  Speaker 1: to compete head to head with their white counterparts, and
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  Speaker 1: we all know they've got to be twice as good,
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  Speaker 1: So they need the resources just across the board. I
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  Speaker 1: would love for it to see it come from sports
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  Speaker 1: and then it would like kind of trickle throughout the school.
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  Speaker 1: But there needs to be like a conservative effort to
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  Speaker 1: make black colleges as attractive to your number one, number two,
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  Speaker 1: number three kids coming out of school and as attractive
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  Speaker 1: two kids for instance, and be your daughter, who who
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  Speaker 1: wants to show estate. We need to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: we are attractive to all of our children in every
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  Speaker 1: department and in every way. Yeah, no, I agree, And
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  Speaker 1: I think we just need to highlight it more. I
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  Speaker 1: think we need to highlight it more like we highlight
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  Speaker 1: you know, Anthony Anderson, and we highlights Roger Henson, Roger
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  Speaker 1: p Henson, We highlight Diddy, We highlight Chadwick Boseman. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes we gotta highlight Rick Mahorns. We gotta
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  Speaker 1: highlight those players that went to an HBCU that made
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  Speaker 1: it to the league, that made it to the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: that made it to the NFL. So people understand because,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, as a kid in sixteen, seventeen year
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  Speaker 1: old kid that's going to college, they want to be
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  Speaker 1: on television, you know what I mean, And what they
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  Speaker 1: see on television is not necessarily HBCU. So, like Chris said,
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  Speaker 1: once we start going to those schools, they have to
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  Speaker 1: highlight it. They have no choice. But I was gonna ask,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with all that you doing, I mean, you're
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA and you're successful, you're an All Star?
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  Speaker 1: What makes what gives you the drive to continue on
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  Speaker 1: pushing because at one time, you know, it looked like
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  Speaker 1: you were going to retire, and then you came out
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  Speaker 1: the next year and you bust asks you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean? So obviously he wasn't Why don't it look
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  Speaker 1: like I was going to it? Maybe it seemed like
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  Speaker 1: you seemed like he was gonna go, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: he still got it, and then you came out the
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  Speaker 1: next year like, no, I got ten more years left.
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  Speaker 1: So I was gonna ask, you know, what gives you
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  Speaker 1: the energy and to strive to continue to push like
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  Speaker 1: and not just in the NBA, but also pushing HBCUs.
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  Speaker 1: What gives you that and giving back because you're giving
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  Speaker 1: back a lot to the community and you don't have to. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's understanding that it's bigger than me, and
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  Speaker 1: understanding all the people that have played a huge role
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  Speaker 1: in me even being here and being a parent. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I got a thirteen year old sign and a ten
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  Speaker 1: year old daughter, right, so they're paying attention. They see
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  Speaker 1: what's going on, you know, and I want them to
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  Speaker 1: know and understand because my kids live in California and
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  Speaker 1: obviously right, So I need them to know their roots
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  Speaker 1: and where all that comes from. And I don't know, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell everybody, and my family went to HBCU except
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  Speaker 1: for me, right, everybody, everybody. So how did your parents
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  Speaker 1: feel about that when when you were the only one
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  Speaker 1: that was like dumb, my humble in here, how did
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  Speaker 1: they feel about that? They didn't even think twice about it?
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  Speaker 1: Because you got to think about an MBA when I
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  Speaker 1: was coming up, like I was getting recruited by you
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  Speaker 1: coming Michigan State, like the highest level of basketball, right,
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  Speaker 1: and so like I said, I'm in once to seal
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  Speaker 1: On State's backyard, but they didn't even recruit me because
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  Speaker 1: they felt like they didn't have a shot at it,
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  Speaker 1: right right. Yeah, And at the time, as a kid,
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  Speaker 1: I'm unaware. I'm born and raised in North Carolina. So
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  Speaker 1: I was a diehard Carolina fan, right, diehard Carolina fan.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm looking at Donald Felt, so I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: at Jared Stackhouse and all them. So once to Salem
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  Speaker 1: State and as a kid, you don't know that HBCU
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  Speaker 1: is at HBCU. I didn't. Y'all might ye your parents
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  Speaker 1: and stuff, but it was just once to Salem State
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  Speaker 1: and wait far as. Then after I left school and
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  Speaker 1: got older, I was like, oh uh, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you started aware. And so I tell you
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  Speaker 1: one thing that I did in the bubble is when
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  Speaker 1: I started every game, I wore a different HBCU. And
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  Speaker 1: what was dope about it is before I War one,
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  Speaker 1: I did the research on that different university. Right, And
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  Speaker 1: so you start learning because a lot of people just
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  Speaker 1: know about the HBCU they want to, and so you
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  Speaker 1: don't know all the history of all the different HBCUs
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  Speaker 1: out there. I found out about a little small when
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  Speaker 1: in blue Field it's called Bluefield College, which is where
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  Speaker 1: my wife's parents are from. You start finding out so
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  Speaker 1: many little intricacies and stuff, and it just gets you
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  Speaker 1: more and more passionate. Like Morris Bryan. You know they
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  Speaker 1: did shut it down at one point. They didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to fund it, right, right, Yeah, And so I'm just
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  Speaker 1: always interested in it. And last thing I said, because
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  Speaker 1: I can talk about HBCUs all day, is think about
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  Speaker 1: how many people we have in entertainment, right, and then
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  Speaker 1: lawyers and stuff like that. Right, people will come from HBCUs.
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  Speaker 1: That's something that some of these classes and whatnot if
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  Speaker 1: we give up our time. Right, if you think about
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  Speaker 1: the kids at Hampton who would love to hear you
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  Speaker 1: know from you, Right. I did a whole conversation at
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  Speaker 1: once to set them state three weeks ago with all
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  Speaker 1: the athletes and I went to one set them State
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  Speaker 1: and I talked to them, right, because then they really
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  Speaker 1: feel like they know you and they can connect with you.
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  Speaker 1: So we put together a network of all these people
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  Speaker 1: from HBCUs. Those are different things that these courses that
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  Speaker 1: PWIS can't offer, right, Right, you get these courses, like
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  Speaker 1: I said in my class on sports business and then entertainment,
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  Speaker 1: I show up sometimes at a seven am zoom and
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  Speaker 1: let them ask questions because that's the only way they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get ahead. Well, I will tell you this, if
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  Speaker 1: you ever need me in Gizelle for whatever that you're doing,
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  Speaker 1: we will be glad to do it. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. I'm a podcasting entertainment DJ investments. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we would definitely love to do it for sure. But Chris,
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  Speaker 1: I missed the game where you had on the Hampton church.
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  Speaker 1: He did, I did, and I put him. I posted
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  Speaker 1: a picture of my brother because I told you it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I never forget. I actually just finished writing a book
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  Speaker 1: about my late grandfather. But I talked about dropping my
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  Speaker 1: brother off at Hampton his freshman year because it's just
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  Speaker 1: me and him. So me and my parents dropped him off.
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  Speaker 1: And I was with a sophomore in high school and
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  Speaker 1: I remember dropping him off at Hampton, like, Lord, have mercy.
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  Speaker 1: HBCU is different. If I go there. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the NBA with Joe. Just imagine this. Just
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  Speaker 1: imagine a kid from Queens that Billy had grand pull
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  Speaker 1: it up on that campus to see it, all that water,
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  Speaker 1: all everything that's dead, from the sexiness of the campus,
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  Speaker 1: of the people. You're just sitting there like this is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Listen the excitement of the games. I was at my
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  Speaker 1: brother game and they were playing against norforld State YEA.
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  Speaker 1: During the time out, child that started coming a little
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  Speaker 1: bit closer, Child that started coming a little bit closer,
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  Speaker 1: came a little bit close. They started like listen, my
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  Speaker 1: daughters to um Florida A and m yea Yeah, to
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  Speaker 1: do a whole like tour um. I gave them the
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  Speaker 1: VIP treatment. We sat with the president, we sat with
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  Speaker 1: the dena um de dena Affairs, So it was a
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  Speaker 1: game going on. Listen that game started and that band
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  Speaker 1: came out and they were like, old, this is it.
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  Speaker 1: This is where we're going, because it's just like you
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  Speaker 1: can't beat that for us, and so we have to
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  Speaker 1: like expose our kids because if you show them, there's
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  Speaker 1: no way they'll turn it down. Absolutely, you're exactly right.
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  Speaker 1: I actually I actually do a show right now that's
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  Speaker 1: on ESPN Plus called why Not Us. We're in our
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  Speaker 1: third season right now. Our first season was with North
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  Speaker 1: Carolina Ant, I mean with North Carolina Central, and it
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  Speaker 1: just followed their whole basketball program to show you what
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  Speaker 1: it looks like at an HBCU. The second year we
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  Speaker 1: did family football, right and we followed them. The episodes
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  Speaker 1: that are right right are out right now are with
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  Speaker 1: Southern University the Dancing Dogs, and it shows you the dancing.
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  Speaker 1: So we're just trying to show people what it's like
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  Speaker 1: being at an HBCU. Absolutely, but we appreciate you, appreciate
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  Speaker 1: your time to today. Brother, I know you gotta run
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  Speaker 1: and just say thank you for everything, and thank you
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  Speaker 1: for everything that you're doing for HBCUs and everything you're
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  Speaker 1: doing in the community. We appreciate you. State Farms appreciate,
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you, and like again again, if you ever need
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  Speaker 1: us for any of your zoo meetings or anything, we
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  Speaker 1: would love to do it because we love to encourage
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  Speaker 1: and encourage the youth, encourage the community and make sure
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  Speaker 1: that they're doing the right thing. And if we can
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  Speaker 1: do it with that own, it's like noble no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let y'all know too. I'm trying to graduate
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  Speaker 1: December sixteenth, so I'll let y'all know. And that how
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  Speaker 1: I'm walking? Are you walking? Oh? I'm walking. I ain't
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  Speaker 1: doing all this work not to congratulations in advance. All right,
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  Speaker 1: thank y'all, Yeah, that you would State Forward. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: HBCUs with Chris Paul, Gizelle Bryan and dj MV Salute.
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  Speaker 1: That was our conversation with eleven times NBA All Star
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  Speaker 1: Chris Paul. For more information about Chris's foundation and its initiatives,
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  Speaker 1: go to www dot Chris Paul Family Foundation dot org.
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  Speaker 1: We also want to thank our partners from State Farm
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  Speaker 1: for making this conversation happen. State Farm knows that being
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  Speaker 1: good neighbors means uplifting ammunities wherever their customers find themselves.
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  Speaker 1: They don't just provide a policy, they provide a partner
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  Speaker 1: because with over nineteen thousand State farm agents, they reflect
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  Speaker 1: the diversity of America like a good neighbor. State farm
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