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SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST_BONUS EPISODE _76_ HOST DR_ CHENZIRA · DA CREW Podcast

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called parts of who Lion p'swearing the jungle. I won't end up buying someone
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that plays would say his son always be humble. Myself and I always remember
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to give jo brains so sting braces out to job or bad into to the
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stars of playing. It's no bit your time, and then to be a
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proper spread away from out of that rounds who play three each, son and
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els and day chaps we go. You reverse them out, saying monest when
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rising the champions games we go. Really, I turn our games to bes
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and some bisne to reach my double may come saying happy they canna pray to
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reach Ali Basil never raised to try. And do they say that the you
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you saying parts of the lion Christ where religion one end appian someone that it
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plays that no one would say son will always be humble, Oh my son,
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and I always remembered to char It takes a moment for us to even
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start tonight's broadcasts. Here are building a new legacy with the podcast with your
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always vibrate on how to build a new legacy to really shift things in the
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power in his work, in his sound and listen to that energy is rise
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up. So with that being said, I am really grateful that this evening
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we're going to have again we've been joined by another lion who brings this whole
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work into the tights, into full truth bearing vibration and always reminds us that
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here on our speaks building a new legacy. We invite you to listen,
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share with us, engage in the views, expand your authentic revolutionary voice in
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action, not just a revolutionary voice for TUG, but a revolutionary voice and
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action for family, village, community, nation and beyond. We get an
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opportunity to also look at quote unquote interdisciplinary ah trans cultural media broadcasts that really
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allows us to have an an conversation. What does she say O conversation,
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a life engaging interactive versation. The other term conversation we will not use that
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tonight's broadcast. The other part that we get to do is we get a
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chance to look at certain global affairs and provide our strength to ways that things
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can be resolved, the way that things can be reconciled, and we also
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look at these different movements that happen. Granted, some of us are in
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the Caribbean. I'm currently in Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands. Others maybe
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in the forty eight contiguous US. Some of our guests have actually been as
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far as the African continent, all twelve million square miles of our ancestral homeland.
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And then we have cistern and veteran that come from South America, Canada,
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just different parts of the world, so that we can actually get into
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some of the international conversations. Oh did she say that word? You know
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what I mean? And with that being shared, I would like to welcome
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our guests. I'm going to ask my engineer sister Queen, thank you so
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much for bringing I get a kick out of saying the name. Now I
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think I've learned so give thanks blessed heart to love, blessings. Blessings first
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and foremost, let me just greet your audience in that divine name of His
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Imperial Majesty. And probably lastly, the first and it's chosen Queen Empress was
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zero men in And I have to say that it's a great honor to be
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welcomed to such an esteem platform by our esteem Queen Mother doctor Chin Zero,
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who I hold in the highest of esteem. So this is a this is
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a great honor for I to be here with the family tonight. Yeah,
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thanks, thanks, and we are equitively pleased to be in the presence of
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one that. And I definitely like to read this when I gotta take my
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tade, because I'd like everybody to hear every single word. Make sure you
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catch on Quasi Bonsu and Squire so we get clear. So anything we say
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just no Akada's match. Quassi is an entertainment attorney, musical artist, an
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actionist and an author. He prides himself in completing meaningful work across professions.
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In twenty twenty one, Quasi Bonsu released his first published work, I have
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the Evidence and mine is autograph. Oh okay, I'm I'm so grateful,
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released his first published work, Hailey I Selassia is Ethiopia, Volume one,
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The Rise of the Priestly Warrior Kings. Make sure we recognize that he didn't
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say soldier and he didn't leave out the priest. Then say that title one
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more time so you can google and purchase Hailey Selassie Eyes Eatthiopia, Volume one,
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The Rise of the Priestly Warrior Kings. Because he believes in action over
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talk, hence, he coined the term actionist to encompass both his charitable and
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entrepreneurial endeavors. And with that, I really am honored, humbled and very
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very pleased to be able to welcome to speaks building a new legacy none other
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than Brother what us stay just much? You know I'm gonna keep you know,
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I tell you very animated. We could make this very you know,
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any speed. I'm with you, I'm with you, my Queen Mother,
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I'm with you anything. I'm grateful there's been so just to give some some
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context, part of this intention is an extension of what is done in the
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Lines Voice network, the network that our brother has in place with you know,
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more than two hundred plus episodes, and it's like action packed lots of
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information. It's like having a truth burer and a collection of living elders,
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intergenerational persons of different backgrounds. All the building blocks of nation and civilization building
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are represented very very clearly, and it also provides an opportunity for persons to
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just know a little bit more about ways in which we begin to authentically support
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our We just finished, and for some there's still African Liberation Day observances around
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the globe and for those persons in the platform that may not be as familiar.
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May twenty fifth globally, formerly since nineteen sixty three, but as early
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as nineteen fifty eight, when African independent states gathered under the guidance the leadership
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of several significant leaders in the continent that did all that was required to keep
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their respective nations free, liberated, and independent, with the core piece being
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the never conquered space of Ethiopian Under the leadership and again, not only the
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emperor throne did he roll within, did he rolled within a governmental leadership that
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was providing a form of African diplomacy that is considered unprecedented and top notch throughout
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the twentieth century. By his Imperial Majesty Hailea s Alasia and that influence that
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his imperial majesty had on several African leaders up to nineteen fifty eight, you
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know, looking at some of these Pan African congresses, etc. And then
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it coalencing actually building up. So let's say eight countries were independent in fifty
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eight. By nineteen sixty three it was more than thirty. And I think
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that people should be aware. So when we say African Liberation Day, we're
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honoring these African liberated spaces in the continent. But the impact that it had
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around the world, because while these things were happening in Africa, there were
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some rights movements, like power movements, all types of human rights advocacy around
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the globe. Things were happening in Westpapu in beginning as quiet as people didn't
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realize that that was part of it. Things were happening in Australia, things
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were happening in other parts of Europe. Things were happening like wildfire throughout not
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only the forty eight contiguous US, Central and South America and this Caribbean.
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Many of the nation states that are independent now were manifested through the same trajectory
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of what took place from the All African People's Conference of nineteen fifty eight in
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Ghana, led by the honorable first President of an independent Ghaneian Republic, doctor
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Kwame and Kruma, and it just grew literally like wildfire throughout the world.
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Many there was a lot of cross pollinations. So when we speak of brothers
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is dealing with Pan Africanism, recognizing Rastafari, recognizing African liberation, we're blending
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all of that together in part of our versation. This evenon and I just
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desire to give that context because the special broadcast, I love that term.
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The special broadcast all the Lines Voice Network for African Liberation Day made twenty fifth,
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twenty twenty four, brought together such an esteemed panel and no one talked
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over anyone and everybody. It was just like an ironity. This went from
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one sister in one Rethren to another and just rolled together. And the complementariness
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of how we were speaking, I can only call that my aunt as truth,
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justice, order, reciprocity, balanced divine righteousness and harmony and its fullness
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right our reasonings. And that was in a video virtual space. So and
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I waiting for their physical it's gonna be power power, So I just got
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just thinking about me. So I really am grateful that you are with us
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because you do a lot. You do a lot as an author, you
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do a lot as an attorney, as an artist, and by way of
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all of those three, you're an educator. You know, you have a
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family, and you know your children are being blessed and guided by your Queen
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and yourself. In terms of that fullness of that multi disciplinary experience that you
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have, I mean, you're an interdisciplinary studies person yourself, just with all
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of the things that you do. I'd like for you to speak to what
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inspired you to establish the Lines Voice network and then go into the part of
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what inspired you to write this first publication. Well, well, first of
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all, you know my journey, I incounter the rest of Fari meaningfully for
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the first time as a student at Howard University. You know, I am
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a double graduate of Howard University. Big up, all of devising out there,
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it's you. You. You have to know what we do over here.
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So so that was one of my encounter, my first encounter with Rastafarai
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on campus. You know. So I came into Rastafari from an academic perspective.
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So when I entered law, school. When I was accepted into Howard
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University School of Law, you know, I had a particular interest because I
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was a creative in entertainment law studied under the great legendary Professor Boyer, who
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was renowned at the time, since passed away. And you know, so
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my whole thing was about the intellectual property piece of Rassafarai. Knowing that everywhere
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you go in my home island of Jamaica, you know, with the tourism,
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you see red, gold and green, you see Rastafarai images, and
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knowing as I know at that time that Rastafari people were not getting any economic
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benefit and a lot of them were you know, fighting the bat against poverty
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and years of discrimination. So you know, I, you know, quickly
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became you know, you know, focus on the area of intellectual property.
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And I started a publishing company with one of my colleagues. That publishing company
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then evolved into a music conference, a Jamaica Music Conference, which became the
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longest running conference in Jamaica's history. And all of this as Rastafari. But
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doing the music conference, I would encounter other Rastafari creatives and know that we
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had nothing that was for ourselves, you know, everything was how can we
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get on this third party platform or we're depending on this to go and you
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know, knowing the power of our intellectual property and what that represents, I
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said, you know, if you want that change, you have to become
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that change. And so it evolved into the creation of the Lion Voice at
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work. Well, first it evolved into the creation of the Association of Rastafari
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Creatives. We started a trade association during COVID and then from that SPROM the
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Lion Voice Network because again all of our creatives are in the same boat.
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We need platforms in order to get to the audience. You know, we're
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living in the digital age, direct to consumer, and so I created a
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platform that's unapologetically Rastafari, non aligned and independent, funded by the people,
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so that we could you know, hear from various voices. Because in my
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father's house are many mansions. We have, you know, Boboshanty, twelfth
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Tribe, Naya Binghi. I wanted all of the voices to have a platform,
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not aligned. If you're a Rastafari and you have no affiliation, I
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wanted you to have a platform. If you are a Pan African and you
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want to speak about the unification of Africa. I wanted you to have a
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platform because our foundation is always Marcus Garvey and our Pan African forefathers, George
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pad Moore, uh, you know, even Booker T. Washington who inspired
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Garvey. You know, we're talking about so many of our elders that we
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stand on their their shoulders, Rassmulconnen and Guyana. You know, we could
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go on and on, w the Boy, you know, so there's so
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many that we could continue, but you know, we stand on their shoulders,
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and so I wanted to create a platform where we could hear these voices.
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They say that content is king right now, and as an entertainment attorney
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and advising many clients, I also realize that, you know how true it
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is that you know, content is not going anywhere how we consume. No
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matter what your product or services, you have to get into the content in
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terms of the marketing of that product. And so, you know, creating
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a platform for I was a special task because I've been telling my clients to
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do this for many years. That's the other part of it, because I've
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always known the importance of building community and cultivating a director consumer ecosystem, but
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I'd never have done it because, you know, focus on the law working
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within the nonprofit sector. You know, I sit on the board of several
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nonprofits, so you know, focus on the work from that perspective. But
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it didn't allow me to kind of focus on my own creativity, my own
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ecosystem. Something happened called COVID nineteen that you know, gave everybody a chance
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to sit down and really you know, order your fears and to redirect the
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energy. And so I use COVID nineteen to fund the Lion Voice Network.
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I hope everyone listening will will follow us over there. I used it to
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found the Lion Voice Network and since then we have been you know, because
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I have a wide network of Pan African Rastafari music industry. But I purposely,
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you know, focus my interviews and my engagement with the workers who you
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know, have always done the work but never get the highlight. Because I
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wanted to counter the narrative that Rastafari is not doing anything, that all we
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do is smoke ganja and listen to reggae music. So I purposely didn't interview
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reggae musicians, even though I know so many and I myself am my artists.
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You know, I wanted to interview the cistern that are doing the back
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to school treat Now, I wanted to talk to the ones that are you
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know, countless times that are organizing the events that are carrying to the elders,
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who are fulfilling the raster Fari creed. And for those who are not
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familiar, the Rastafari creed says that the hungry are fed, the naked clothe,
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the sick nourish, the eight protected, the infants kid for and we
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also say that ignorant educated or the ignorant instructed. So all of these ministries
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are things that people are actively doing within the Rastafari community. So I wanted
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to create a platform to highlight that work. And thus the Lion Voice Network
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was born. And our tagline and I'll saw it forward to the eye after
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this, I'm long winded, family, so beer would I we saw the
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esquire. There's a reason it's s Q. The tagline is that the time
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has come for the lions to tell our own story. This is the lion
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voice and it comes from, of course, the African proverb that until the
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lion tells the story, the story of the hunt will always glorify the hunter,
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or you know, there's many different iterations of that proverb, but I
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said, now the time has come. We don't want to just keep saying
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that proverb. We wanted now take matters in our own hand. We want
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to own our narrative, We want to tell our story, and thus was
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born the lion Voice Network. Okay, beautiful. That's why we asked those
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types of things because when you say the time has come for the lion's voice,
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that's important because sometimes we overlook what that really means, and persons take
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it into a space that doesn't embrace all of our voices, all of our
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perspectives, all of our trade and how to bring that so that it's uplifting,
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so that we authentically are helping to support the rasterpriically Creed. You made
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that very clear. Also heard that you shared three things that sometimes we tend
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to overlook in regard to the responsibility we have to community, the responsibility we
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have to family, as well as the responsibility we have to self. Yes
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it being self fish or even self less, but making sure that the eye
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is centered in in a proper record to be able to give strength and be
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participatory in a great way with family and from the family place being strong and
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to give to the wider community and being able to navigate that to the spaces
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where we're not giving so much that we're operating at a loss, because then
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it's not reciprossible, then it's not mod Then it's more the opposite of God
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is fed. I a s FPTA learning. I always learned when I talk
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to my Queen mother family likewise, but that is fed as chaos. It's
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disorder, disharmony. It's the opposite of the truth. Just disorder, reciprocity,
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balanced, divine righteousys and harmony, which we speak now. I'd like
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to go into that space, going to keep using it because I don't wish
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for my background to be messed up. But family, if you don't have
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a copy of this particular book, I encourage you to go to It's I'm
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sure it's on Amazon as well. Correct it is is, but they can
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also get it at Bookman Express, dot pub Bookman as inducted Bookman the Haitian
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Revolution Area. We partner with a black own publisher, Rastafari Publisher Bookman Express
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and that's b O okay m An Express and dot p U b dot pub
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and you can get it straight there. It helps the author and the publisher
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the most if you buy it direct. But if you're not in North America
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or Canada, you can purchase it from Amazon. It's global. There's also
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a kindle version, so if you if you read ebooks, you can get
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the kindle version as well. Anyway, we we are very appreciative. So
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but if you if you want to, you know a lot of people purchase
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with the intent to help the author or the publisher. So we always say
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by direct because Amazon takes a huge chunk of the revenue, you know,
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within their model. All of our book authors will will tell you that,
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right, I have a quick question, please give that website one more time.
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That way we can share that with our viewers and listeners. It's a
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Bookman Express b O O kay M A N e x p R E S
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S dot p U B Bookman Express. It's also available on my website,
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the chasmatch dot com. Someone's asking to put it in the text. Yes,
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best from my website, the chasmatch quasi dot com. And everything about
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me is on my website. And and that's also very key for creatives to
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have a website. You know, your digital your digital storefront. You know,
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a lot of people think websites are outdated and we're on social media,
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but at the end of the day, we don't own the social media.
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You know, we don't get the analytics from the social media. They get
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all of those analytics. So we want to use the social media to funnel
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people to spaces that we own, that we pay for. We can get
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the email addresses. The email list is still the holy grail for you know,
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creators or creatives, because you want to have a direct relation with your
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audience. You know, I do creative consultations as well, so I slip
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into that mode sometimes, so forgive I, but I'm very passionate about creatives
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creating their their ecosystem. So online you can find my music, you can
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see the legal side, creative consultation, the lin Voice network, everything is
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there. And then you know, we have separate spaces for each of those
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works, but we have a hub which is our website, which you know,
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please sign up. I got my first warning from YouTube that I need
28:21
to behave myself. I did an episode on population control agenda on the continent
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on YouTube told me to behave myself. You know, the misinformation police,
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So you want to make sure that you also when you're supporting creatives on these
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platforms, that you give them your email, because if we get booted off
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of and I do also have a newsletter, if we get booted off of
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YouTube or Facebook or IG, then we still have that direct link to our
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audience, to our tribe, to our community. So this is why I
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say the website, email are still so in important in this modern time because
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they are spaces that you can control and you can moderate, and you can
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have the data, because that's what is the goal in this new age.
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Yeah, well, that's why it's important to have these types of utianizations around
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entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial engagements, economic prosperity, all things that lead towards that layer
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of the reciprocity in all ways, because everyone is comfortable, you know,
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we are giving people. We are very our spirit is very giving, very
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loving most of the time. And with those exceptions, many times we may
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overdo it and not be able to have the wherewithal or just the proper resources
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to be able to publish. Okay, maybe I need to show that section
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too. I show see the thickness a little bit. There's a lot of
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it, right, and I can say that, you know, I love
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reading from young and it took me less than a day and a half,
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just in between other things, because this is such a captivating complication that well,
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you know, I think I was telling you that when you were here,
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because from the time it was like, you know, I was trying
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not to just sit around and forget that, you know, I need to
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be teaching, I need to be working, I need It wasn't on vacation,
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however, I found it was very powerful to just look at different pathages
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and sometimes you can just go to any passage and find something very profound and
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engaging and motivating to really recognize, because some persons get overwhelmed with the legacy
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of the imperial medicine and for a hay Celassia. And it's amazing to me
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because the way that you presented this is such that not only is it an
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exploration, as you've stated, of Ethiopian royal history, but it shows regality,
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it shows race, and it shows diplomacy in a form that some persons
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weren't familiar that in the early part of the twentieth century we've had an emperor,
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not just a king, not just the queen, an emperor that even
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the Queen of England fell to. I think the person's an African emperor.
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Let me think, sure, I clarify that, and I think that that
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wasn't haunting, that was very humble, and you are able to share that
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without sometimes even saying those words in the publications. But I'm really encouraging persons
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that would like to really recognize and learn, you know, some in a
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very creative poem. I mean, you're obviously a Grillo in your own form
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because you're presenting it so it's like a little bit a Nazi and Nazi a
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Nazi. And by the time you start reading and you get ready, oh,
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you know, I've been reading for an hour. Let me put it
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down. You're like, I want to go to this next section. Yes,
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next, That's why I broke it up into sections like that, so
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anchors. Yes, it gives you. I can just read a little section,
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yes, section, yes, yes, glad. I'm glad it had
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that impact. And you know, I wrote the book I always wanted to
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read as a young rass because I always noticed that Ethiopia's history was separated from
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the rest of the continent, was separated from the diasporas, so I wanted
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to write about that weave, the narrative that showed how all of these things
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interconnect, because we're all interconnected. And for those who are not familiar,
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you know, I grew up in the in the eighties and I was born
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in the seventies, but I grew up with we are the world. When
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we thought of Ethiopia as big bellied, starving children with flies around their mouth,
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that was the image that I grew up with of Ethiopia. I had
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no idea about this great legacy and this you know epic. You know,
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when you when you read the History of Ethiopia reads like an epic fantasy,
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which is why I wrote the book in that manner, because you know,
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I love books like Lord of the Rings and and you know all of these.
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You know, Game of Thrones is popular for this generation, but I
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love that epic fantasy. So to read the History of Ethiopia and to you
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know, see how it intertwines with the Bible, because without Ethiopia, the
33:32
Bible narrative becomes not true, you know, because an anchor. Yeah,
33:38
the Bible guarantees to David, the Great King David, that a manchild would
33:44
sit on his throne throat the Sun and the moon and all of these things.
33:47
And there was no country on the face of the earth that had a
33:52
legacy of a king on the throne from the bloodline of King Solomon other than
33:55
Ethiopia. And it just so happened that that same space was the heart of
34:00
Africa in Holy Mountains, and that that space had never been conquered, you
34:06
know. So all of these components coming together, to me, it was
34:10
too irresistible and not too weave a narrative that would would would captured those who
34:17
may not be familiar with Ethiopia. So this book, even though it's about
34:22
the life of Highly selasses volume one of a larger work that's going to be
34:28
my life, work and legacy, it only deals with the birth of highly
34:31
Selassie. It's only about you know. So I set the stage coming up
34:36
to that moment, interweaving one of the central characters as his father, Ros
34:42
mcconnen, who was a foreign minister, one of the first Ethiopians that left
34:45
the country in the modern era, who was able to see the industrial revolution
34:52
in Europe to come back and warn his people who are still living according to
34:57
the biblical traditions. Horse and calvary warfare, you know, sword and shield,
35:06
lion made, you know, warrior dress, you know all of these
35:09
things that were their reality. And you know, highly Celast, his father
35:15
was able to visit Italy and to say, listen, they have you know,
35:20
the Gatlet gun, they have cannons, they have all these war implements.
35:27
We need to start getting our act together so that when the invasion came
35:31
in eighteen ninety six, at the Battle of Vadawa, Ethiopia becomes the only
35:37
African nation to conquer a European army on the battlefield and do so in such
35:44
a fashion that it's actually referred to as a slaughter of the European army.
35:50
And the reason they were able to do that is because all of the tribes
35:52
came together and they had four knowledge of what was coming and some ability to
35:59
prepare. So this narrative, although it doesn't deal with the battlaw, it
36:02
sets the stage I'm getting ready to write volume two, which will encompass the
36:07
bad Adawa and it take us up to His Majesty's ascension as the chas match,
36:13
which the name I carry is a name that highly Selastic carried. The
36:16
chess match, which means commander of the gate or keeper of the door,
36:21
a military honor. Before you address the rass, you would be greeted by
36:27
the chess match who also you know, commanded a certain side of the battlefield
36:31
as well. So all of these things I write about in the book again
36:38
to set the stage. And it's again it's written almost like an epic fantasy,
36:44
but it is annotated. I am an attorney, so I like to
36:46
sign you have enough foot note today in here I went up to four hundred
36:51
and something. I don't want to help myself. It's so fantastical. I
36:59
want people to know that this is coming from all these different sources that you
37:02
know. I don't want you to feel like even though it's written like a
37:06
historical fiction, there's nothing in the book that is fiction. It's it's you
37:09
know, it's it's you know, I put some sauce on it. You
37:12
know, as a grills, as African grills, we have license to put
37:16
a cross on the history. But it's founded in the history, you know
37:20
what I mean. So I might, you know, ponder what mass mcconnan
37:23
was thinking at a particular moment, but it's based on you know, all
37:28
of the circumstances that were historically reported at that time. You know, so
37:34
it's a it's a labor of love, and I'm so glad that you you
37:38
enjoyed it. That was the greatest compliment upon my visit to Saint Croix that
37:44
have a queen mother and doctor endorse the work and say that, you know,
37:50
because the professor Grade's work, you know all the time and reads so
37:53
the fact that she could look into the literature and enjoy it as a reader,
38:00
there's no higher compliment to an author. And you know, my heart
38:04
is still full was coming. It's I'm a little slow, but the review
38:09
was coming because I think that the work and I would I desired to take
38:14
a moment to just because I've done this even when I'm teaching, and just
38:20
brought the text because you remember the impact it had on students. Yes,
38:24
they were. They bought the book from you there just hearing what you're talking
38:30
about, and they and they actually read it like before the end of the
38:34
semester, which I thought, I found to know that they bought the book,
38:38
were excited by the collection. It motivated some to try to do like
38:43
actual recitations. Some of the classes wanted to just take sections and recited for
38:47
some of their communication classes, et cetera. But there's a particular portion that
38:52
I just turned to as you were speaking, and it's in the middle of
38:57
the text. And as knowledge began to increase, Africa's massive imprint on the
39:02
ancient world became more apparent. By eighteen ninety two, learned scholars had traveled
39:08
more and they began to accept that mankind originated in Africa and that advanced civilizations
39:15
were not foreign to its peoples. I felt that you've dropped those nuggets of
39:21
truth in between all of this factual data in such a genuinely creative way that
39:28
it allows the reader to like get all the data to find out you and
39:31
what was happening in such and such a year, what was happening in this
39:34
part of the earth, et cetera. It was technical, yeah, and
39:37
then you opened up into these very creative poetic crows in the middle of after
39:44
giving all this information and again where I'm at, it's up to one hundred
39:49
and forty eight. But no, I disliked the highlight. That's you know,
39:53
I feel that the research part is really on point, but also just
39:58
helping people that happen opamiliarity with the history of Ethiopia and to have a perspective
40:06
of his imperial majesty, he first, and her emperial majesty. Yes,
40:13
and Christians, especially American Christians, should be aware that Ethiopia is the first
40:19
Christian nation. It was Christian before Rome. Now there is some controversy in
40:25
terms of Armenia making that claim, but it's a tenuous claim when you when
40:30
you dig down in the history, you know, it's a tenuous claim.
40:35
Ethiopia in terms of their history. Why it's also special is because it is
40:39
linked to the Solomonic dynasty. You know, they were Hebrew before they were
40:45
they were following the Torah before they accepted Christianity. So there's a long legacy.
40:52
And of course Ethiopia is the first country mentioned in the Bible. You
40:57
know, Ethiopia is mentioned many times in the Bible, sometimes translated as Kush.
41:04
However, is very important for I think Black Christians in particular to know
41:10
the history of Ethiopia and to know that, yes, there was a conversion
41:15
of West Africa to Christianity, but Christianity itself is very African in its manifestation,
41:23
and it's consistent with the mystery schools of the Nile Valley civilization. Yeshua
41:30
essentially was just spreading knowledge that was hidden in the mystery schools of the Nile
41:35
Valley. Where did he go when he was escaping the wrath of Herod?
41:39
He fled into Egypt in the chemid So we always have to overstand on The
41:46
first convert, you know, was the Ethiopian eunuch, you know, which
41:53
is revered in the Ethiopian tradition. In the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, they also
41:59
say that Saint Matthew wrote the Book of Matthew, traveled down to Ethiopia and
42:05
evangelize. So the date of three hundred and thirty eight, which is used
42:10
because of the Syrian royal princes from Antius and his brother, you know that
42:17
date. But I often have to correct people that Christianity was in Ethiopia long
42:22
before from Antius. That was significant because it was a conversion of the royal
42:29
court, you know. So the crown was converted to Christianity in three thirty
42:35
eighty, which is still before Constantine and the Roman conversion. However, Christianity
42:42
was in Ethiopia from you know, shortly after the Crucifixion because of the Ethiopian.
42:46
You know, in the work that was being done there, there was
42:50
a Christian community. Famously, also, the Christian community of Ethiopia gave refuge
42:55
to the early Muslims who were sent there by the Prophet Muhammed, and we
43:00
talk about that in this book. We talk about the Muslim legacy of Ethiopia,
43:07
and the prophet sport to you know, that his follower should never make
43:12
jihad against Ethiopia because of the kindness of the Christian king who gave refuge.
43:17
So Ethiopia has served this very crucial role in world history, in spiritual history
43:23
of the Abrahamic faiths, both Judaism, Islam and Christianity. And so it's
43:34
so important that we have knowledge because of what's happening globally right now, a
43:38
lot of it is motivated by the Abrahamic Book and interpretations of this book,
43:44
and so we need to know this from an African perspective so that we know
43:49
how to move as the people of the book. I like that because sometimes
43:55
persons are not comfortable going into a discourse on what people think is we're talking
44:05
about religion or we're actually talking about the science of the spiritual systems and the
44:10
traditions that persons followed from the early part of this era and going into quote
44:20
pre dynastic or before christ periods of time, because that would bring another layer
44:25
of conversations that not every and I meant that one at that time, because
44:30
it'll be conflicting crustations, not necessarily guided discourse. And I think it's really
44:37
important. I just desire, because I keep coming back to it, to
44:39
let persons just hear some of the chapter titles the Christ in Ethiopia, Christianity
44:46
Comes to Zion, the Kingdom of Shoa, General of Generals, the Kingdom
44:52
of warlorn a priestly warrior queens, Machanen's heir and person mentally the Second Challenges
45:02
the Kingdom of Rome. The year was eighteen ninety two, the birth the
45:08
New Name. I think it's important that persons are just aware as we're looking
45:13
at some of this information and sharing. That's why having these opportunities to gain
45:19
information, gain knowledge, of course, when it's comfortable in your schedule,
45:22
and at the same time being able to cross pollinate, how we begin to
45:27
look at what our spiritual systems are and do our best to minimize conflict by
45:34
minimizing contact with those I'm pulling from nearly puller right, pulling from nearly fuller
45:39
that quote. But to be able to have these types of exchanges so that
45:45
we're not offending one another when we're speaking truth to power, we're not offending
45:51
if someone comes and they're speaking about a component of the Baikongo traditions in Uganda
46:00
more around like Uganda, Burundi, etc. Those areas South Africa. That
46:06
because it does not sound the same as a King James version of biblical texts,
46:12
that you may see the same thread of the same types of commandments and
46:16
the same type of loyalty and integrity and how people speak and engage and respect
46:22
for life and respect me on neeva and things like that, but it will
46:25
come through a different language and through a different framework and lens than what you're
46:30
familiar with. So that's why we're always encouraging when we have these types of
46:35
exchanges, that we respect and protect one another when we're having these exchanges,
46:42
because it's a lot of trust, and you're leaving yourself very vulnerable, and
46:45
if you're not studying, then you will it may become more of an argument
46:52
and then it moves into emotion instead of being able to use rhetoric appropriately.
46:57
Not that I'm a grammarian, but sometimes i am. But more importantly that
47:01
reasoning and logic and how you present things and based on facts that you have
47:07
to your you know, to your disposal to the best of your ability.
47:12
So I'd like to then shift into what are some of the worst elements that
47:16
got you into the arts and some of these creative industries, you know,
47:21
what are some of them elements and your presentations that you share. I tell
47:27
people I was an artist before I was an attorney, before I was rushed
47:30
sofari from high school talent shows doing hip hop reggae. So the artist part
47:37
of me probably was the first manifestation, you know, the attraction to the
47:43
stage, to the performing. I used to do, acting, different things.
47:46
I've always you know, I have a magnetism to a stage, you
47:51
know. I always tell people as a running joke, don't let me run
47:53
up on a stiage, you know, and see a microphone, you run
47:58
up on deer and musha with is because it's just part of, you know,
48:02
something that we love to do. I also say that the artists inside
48:07
of me is very upset with me because I've suppressed that artistic This is the
48:14
vestige of coming from a Caribbean home where you are told to be either an
48:19
attorney, a doctor, or engineer. And you know, we we we
48:23
as an obedient son, we followed that and you know, we became an
48:30
attorney. And you know, it's very difficult as a creative. You know,
48:36
probably ninety five percent of creatives are not able to be full time in
48:40
their creative pursuit. And so this is why I get so excited about,
48:46
you know, the concept of creating creative ecosystems, which I think has never
48:51
been possible before this modern era with the technology that we currently have. So
48:57
you know, I'm just now really beginning to embrace more of my creative side
49:02
as an artist. I play my music now that I've been sitting on hard
49:07
drives because I've never stopped going to the studio. I started going to the
49:09
studio in the tenth grade. I've never stopped, and so I started playing
49:15
that music as a soundtrack, these old tracks, a lot of them on
49:20
my network. And that's the beauty again of creating your own ecosystem is that
49:28
you know all of these different parts that may be languishing, you know,
49:32
you can now use these these these various aspects to populate and to animate your
49:37
ecosystem. You know, this is like the nutrients ecosystem, all of the
49:44
different things that you do as a post and now becoming conflicting, which is
49:47
how it is most of the time. And this is why I think of
49:52
all of my multiple talents as an ecosystem, so that they're not competing against
49:58
each other, but they're more feeding. They're they're part of a multi layered
50:02
system. But all of them are I you know, all of them represent
50:07
quasi bonsu. You know what I mean that is that is the key to
50:14
to what I do. But I'm a hip hop artist, a reggae artist,
50:16
dance song you know, all of those genres intertwined. I have a
50:21
special style. I call it roots hip hop, roots rock music. So
50:29
I I try to keep my sound unique and strictly conscious, you know,
50:35
strictly message music. Yes, we're not going to get like we're not gonna
50:39
get like a little at a little slide of a lyric like, no we're
50:43
not We're not gonna get like a like a little extra lyric. All right,
50:51
you're ready a ready If the stars day fall and the turning to blood.
51:00
They're coming. While we stand tall, I will shower you in my
51:06
love. And even when the people start ball, when they see their city
51:12
streets them flood, when the hurricanes blow down their walls, I'll be by
51:19
your side. I mean, Budge, I think I found the love of
51:22
a lifetime. I love you whether they are the ninth time all might I
51:30
made your life shine and onto I it was a lifeline. That's just a
51:37
little something. I like that little something that's not little, that's lovely.
51:43
That's lovely. You give me any warning, family, I just had to.
51:46
There's no one. That's when you tea, I never get none of
51:52
everything there just roll and wave and wave. I keep telling everybody that's that's
52:00
so. That's how we know that the creative arts. Well then then there
52:04
yes, yes from right so and we're very grateful and as we've expressed,
52:08
and you know we're you see how the time flows very swiftly. Yes,
52:15
when we're really enjoying. And you got a compliment from sister Stormy point.
52:21
If that that song is available on YouTube, it's called Love of a Lifetime.
52:30
The Chans have another song called phone Call they can find on YouTube available
52:36
it should be available on most platforms as well. And you know, I
52:39
just thank you for inviting me on the platform. It's been an honor to
52:45
come and this would be the first of many I'm just like you will be
52:50
on my platform. And this is what I talk about when I talk about
52:52
the creative ecosystem. If everyone has their ecosystem, then we can always cross
52:58
pollinate. You know, my audience becomes your audience. Your audience becomes our
53:02
audience, and this is how we can and the people choose, you know,
53:06
it's it's beautiful for the people because they choose the type of content that
53:10
they want to consume. But there might be a few people that like what
53:14
I'm saying that want to come over and check out the Lion Voice Network and
53:19
vice versa. There may be some people that you know, I posted this
53:22
on my platform that see it and come over here and love what you're doing,
53:27
and they remain. So this is the way forward, is Majesty said
53:30
collective security, and we strive to live in that manner. Yeah. Thanks,
53:36
thanks, definitely, We're really giving thanks for the eyes sharing this evening
53:40
with us here on us Speaks. Building a new legacy with our season two
53:51
The Crew Podcast I just get a kick out that just the energy just kind
53:55
of like that, and it really brings another layer of how we can begin
54:00
to share information, but that it's still creative, that it's still at exchange,
54:09
that there are some areas that we may not understand, and we have
54:14
references. You've given us some sites, you know, inclusive of just look
54:17
for days much dot com to be able to get more information. You can
54:22
go to YouTube and look for the Lion's Voice Network, which is a very
54:27
prominent network and they you know, there's a lot of different programming happening on
54:30
a regular basis. I think it's important for persons to see that. I'm
54:35
really giving an extra shout out to several of the hosts of the Crew podcasts.
54:43
You know, Sister Javita Paris, book book book. When we say
54:45
book book book, we've given you like energy and love and light and make
54:49
sure I break myself. Make sure that they don't come across a rock,
54:52
right and I see you saa Okay. Saita Carter is one of our phenomenal
54:58
educators here, and I is Saint Croix. You know, it's another host,
55:02
Trees Grimblelma Thomas, Snette white Side, Antonia, Michelle Little John.
55:08
I just would like to extend thanks to them for supporting We do a lot
55:13
of that inside of this platform to be able to let persons. So if
55:15
you're viewing this and you're seeing this, we encourage you to keep coming into
55:22
the Crew podcast platform because there's various podcasts every day but Tuesday at eight o'clark.
55:30
And then if you look at the platform, you begin to see that
55:34
the sister Queen Visionary Angelo, who's really brought up all of us together,
55:39
is doing this across and cross culminating around persons that are doing publications, dealing
55:45
with media engagement, you know, anthologies, individual publications, and variety of
55:51
other things. In addition to us helping persons to be able to help not
55:54
only self, the family, to wider village, our community ties and of
56:00
course nations and our shared humanity. It's always given us an opportunity to do
56:05
that. So I really give thanks and praise to you the PROSSI both su
56:10
Esquire they just I think I like that part that that's the part that I
56:21
fla because we're looking forth to the next time to being able to share things
56:24
around African liberation, which is all the time and around African history all the
56:30
time, and being able to show how we are really one and what that
56:35
unification, what that liberating thought, how that shift in our mindset is really
56:40
going to bring us together so that we can love more, we can be
56:46
prosperous together. We don't have to worry what someone else has, because everyone
56:52
will have and we're going to share equitively. Remembering culture, heals, humanity,
56:57
Land is our foundation and spiritual harmony un has us do your part to
57:01
contribute to building a new legacy, and we encourage you to really take this
57:08
work to the next level, like really take this work to the next level,
57:13
because sometimes people forget that when we say take it to the next level,
57:16
that's exactly what we mean. So I'm gonna close out. Since we've
57:21
been talking about the lions, I'm gonna use duns. We are not come
57:27
again. We are not coming in. Are just ropen my shoulders annointed them
58:01
blessed, but they're vexed out. We know this, said Ristan, nobout
58:04
them to know. Man. Now we starting out woman the own it.
58:07
As I walk in the part that was laid down by you, only look
58:10
on my mind hearing my heart like this is a blessing day? Is that
58:15
lessen? You run on the session, say job my sharing my heart in
58:20
the city. He lie yeah, broh from the John. You can't hear
58:23
my car. Bro Re you tire yours far? You remember the the lie
58:28
years said you really know in the city, He lie yeah, bro from
58:31
the John, can't hear my car? Brons with each yours far remembered the
58:37
Yea saying I'm being like a marinal sign my team fearlist to set up from
58:40
the stars, likening pyramids, Ji sign and a harder man, I typed
58:45
a harder family. Give them time and then I'll tell you whinning if you
58:46
give them one. But I'm a line sitting at the foot of the throne
58:50
and then go saying, oh body jack house alone and I got love with
58:55
my people leg and see my son and let's go in the city. I
59:00
am brother from the jungle. You can't hear my car. But it's bad
59:04
bron really gie you as far you you fromble the de liars. You're saying
59:07
job in the city that you are bro from the jungle. You can't hear
59:12
my car, bad brown ready gi yours f F you you mother delar sailing
59:16
job as the sun set, slow elected, you know say the night tag
59:22
fa as the bird sing song. He said, the king is a wrong
59:25
and you feel my wrong mister champion sound mister man of the crown said you
59:31
look as the son said, slow elected. You know in the city lady
59:37
that I am Brother from the jungle. Can't here my car and it's bad
59:42
brand. Really tie as far you remember the de liars you're selling in the
59:46
city lady, that I am Bron from the jungle. You can't hear my
59:50
car fat brown, really tie you as far you amber the delars, you
59:54
said joh oh with a lion a lions. We have to close with lion
1:00:08
by a family. We thank you for joining us tonight and look forward to
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seeing you on the first and Thursday Thursday. And remember you are part of
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building a new legacy. Given good night, greatful