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AST SPEAKS WITH QMDrChenziRa Davis Kahina | SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST | 12/5/24 · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: Well, hello, Hello, Hello, I'm waiting for our host. I
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Speaker 1: think she's coming in now. But welcome, welcome to the
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Speaker 1: Crew Podcast. I am waiting for my host. I think
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Speaker 1: she's coming on, waiting for her to come on, and
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Speaker 1: then she's gonna come live. But I want to welcome
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Speaker 1: you guys to another episode of the Crew Podcast. I
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Speaker 1: think she's back here, so let me move out the
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Speaker 1: way and allow her to come on.
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Speaker 2: Greetings, greetings.
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Speaker 3: I am excited beyond measure because it gives me an
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Speaker 3: opportunity to always have certain parts of this broadcast brought
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Speaker 3: forward by the illustrious visionary and I always call it
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Speaker 3: Sister Queen Angela because she just brings so much vibe,
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Speaker 3: you know, check it out, Queen Angela Thomas in parentheses Smith,
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Speaker 3: So just want to highlight, for the purposes of upliftment
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Speaker 3: that I'm always grateful and giving honor and praise. I'm
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Speaker 3: also joyous to have come in even before I arrived,
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Speaker 3: be running up true to reinviro us in Saint Croix
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Speaker 3: bearing over the band to get to a special space,
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Speaker 3: to be able to be part of the The Crue Podcast,
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Speaker 3: this gathering of powerful queens that are live every night
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Speaker 3: except Saturday, to really bring truth to power, share our words, sound,
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Speaker 3: power and strength, to share our spiritual views, our cultural views,
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Speaker 3: our political views, our economic views, our psychological views, and
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Speaker 3: to really bring energy that highlights that which gives us
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Speaker 3: strength through our ancestors and through the power the divine,
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Speaker 3: by all the names that are honorable and sacred that
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Speaker 3: we use in English and other terms. And I'm also
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Speaker 3: excited tonight because you know, as we open up this
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Speaker 3: first and third broadcast that shared as Oz speeeds through
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Speaker 3: yours truly Queen Mother, doctor ten zero, I am joined
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Speaker 3: tonight by one of my spirit sisters, a sister that
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Speaker 3: is powerful, empowering, direct. So I want to go back
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Speaker 3: to some adjectives illustrious, grounded in ancestral veneration, honoring ancestors,
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Speaker 3: par excellence, an.
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Speaker 2: Author, a komfo.
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Speaker 3: I will let her teach you about dot day, a
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Speaker 3: spiritual guide, leader steward, a sistern that cares about humanity
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Speaker 3: and ways that bring truth to power, restore integrity and loyalty.
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Speaker 3: And I have to just take a breath on this one,
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Speaker 3: and a sense of humor that is parallel to none.
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Speaker 3: I want to highlight that to be able to bring critique,
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Speaker 3: not criticism, emotional care with compassion, not sympathy, patheticism right,
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Speaker 3: not that pessimism kind of energy, but sharing and caring
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Speaker 3: with solutions that are blessing granted through her. So with that,
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Speaker 3: i'd like us to welcome. I'm seeing her getting her
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Speaker 3: camera steady and ready. I'd like to welcome the sister
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Speaker 3: I refer to as spirit sister and Queen Nana Cufier,
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Speaker 3: of the same Cofier community in Jamaica.
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Speaker 2: Oh highlight, we're gonna bring it up.
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Speaker 3: We're bringing a little extra caribbeanists to the night.
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Speaker 2: So greetings, Nana, how are you doing.
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Speaker 4: I am absolutely wonderful. It's such a blessing to be here.
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Speaker 4: I pray I can live up to all that you
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Speaker 4: have just said. But I informed the ancestors they've heard you.
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Speaker 3: There we go.
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Speaker 2: That's how we start, That's how we start.
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Speaker 5: I told them that better they better come through. You know,
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Speaker 5: that better come through for us.
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Speaker 3: I said, that's I kept water. I brought some some
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Speaker 3: rooms off of your water. I even brought a little water,
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Speaker 3: a little cool water to keep everything copesthetic, as they say,
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Speaker 3: and for us to be able to share with our listeners,
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Speaker 3: our viewers because we have listeners and viewers that follow
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Speaker 3: the True Podcast on a regular so we're always grateful
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Speaker 3: for that. We say good evening to one of our
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Speaker 3: fellow hosts, Sister Queen Channette Johnson, who's joined us in
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Speaker 3: the platform, and we've already given our greetings to the
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Speaker 3: visionary and the lead producer of this particular gathering of
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Speaker 3: sister queens that are bringing this type of truth to power,
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Speaker 3: Sister Queen and Visionary Angela, you know, and there are
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Speaker 3: others that are part of the network, and there's going
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Speaker 3: to be a shift as we prepare for the twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty five podcast season because it's going to be even
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Speaker 3: more powerful work publications.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 3: There are publications on poetry, on prose, on persons, doing
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Speaker 3: things around biblical scripture, and a lot of other informative, edutaining,
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Speaker 3: edifying types of publications that have brought through this network.
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Speaker 3: So we're looking forward to that so tonight and there's
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Speaker 3: so many things that have happened. You'll see me taking
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Speaker 3: SIPs of water because I did like this three and
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Speaker 3: a half hour hike up into the Sanctuary Maroon Sanctuary
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Speaker 3: ground in the northwestern quadrant of Saint Croix in Freedom
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Speaker 3: City today and the ancestors are indeed pleased and we're
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Speaker 3: definitely present as we walked on these sacred grounds, really
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Speaker 3: sharing with some visitors that we had from representatives of
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Speaker 3: the National Park Service, representatives of the Virgin Islands Architecture
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Speaker 3: Center for Built Built Territation Crafts, and it was wonderful
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Speaker 3: to have representatives coming from the Ghana Museums and Monuments
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Speaker 3: Board and the embodiment of visiting scholar Brother Kwame Samuel Aqua.
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Speaker 3: It was excellent to have brother Professor OLASI.
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Speaker 2: Davis of the.
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Speaker 3: University of the Virgin Islands and the Santa Croix Hiking Association,
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Speaker 3: among other iterations to guide this tour and share, you know,
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Speaker 3: being up on the top by the lighthouse and being
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Speaker 3: able to convene with our ancestors and those that made
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Speaker 3: the choice of freedom beyond enslavement or any form of
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Speaker 3: trafficking in earlier years, and to actually go up to
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Speaker 3: other plateaus where ancestors were able to hide in preparation
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Speaker 3: to escape from enslavement in trafficking, and then to go
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Speaker 3: even higher to the actual stones and rocks and spaces
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Speaker 3: where they were able to that are still in place
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Speaker 3: now where they were able to flee and to watch
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Speaker 3: the expand of the sea, where you could see from
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Speaker 3: Saint Croix northside to Saint John, Tortola, Saint Thomas, Bitzequilebra
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Speaker 3: and Biegues and on the far distant Puerto Rico. So
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Speaker 3: it lets us know that even though Saint Croix is
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Speaker 3: somewhat remote from the other parts of the Virgin Islands
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Speaker 3: and from other parts of the Caribbean that are ancestors
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Speaker 3: did not even let the sea keep them in the
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Speaker 3: bits of enslavement in any form. So ah do I enter,
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Speaker 3: We just say give thanks and phrase. I think that
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Speaker 3: the water I went up the hill to drink I
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Speaker 3: ended up doing off for it. So I just was
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Speaker 3: grateful that I did not become dehydrated, because the ancestors
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Speaker 3: knew my intention. I really I had some water for livations,
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Speaker 3: and then it rained, so I said, I'll just use
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Speaker 3: some of the water for livations. But when I got
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Speaker 3: to the top, I had to keep giving my drinking water,
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Speaker 3: and then I was fine. I felt a little parted,
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Speaker 3: but I had enough water in the body. People shared water.
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Speaker 3: When it rained, I put my head up, so I
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Speaker 3: was fine. So I give thanks, Give thanks your thanks,
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Speaker 3: So share with us nonophopiing some as we close out
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Speaker 3: this Gregorian calendar year of twenty twenty five, what are
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Speaker 3: some words of strength, words of enlightenment, words of power
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Speaker 3: would like to give to our listening and viewing audience.
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Speaker 4: Wow, there has been so much that has been coming
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Speaker 4: into our consciousness regarding how we go forward, you know,
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Speaker 4: from where where we're bidding goodbye to the Gregorian year
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Speaker 4: in a short space of time, and as we embrace
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Speaker 4: a new Gregorian year, there's been so much, you know,
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Speaker 4: as we embraced the number of different new years we
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Speaker 4: celebrated earlier back and New Year, and in March of course,
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Speaker 4: the time and New Year we have we actually have
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Speaker 4: quite a few celebrations around this new idea. But as
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Speaker 4: we go from one to the next, I have just been,
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Speaker 4: you know, just really impressed by the amount of guidance
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Speaker 4: that we've been getting from our ancestors and from spirit
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Speaker 4: world about how to hold our own in what's going
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Speaker 4: to be a pretty turbulent space.
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Speaker 5: You know, there's going to be a continuation of.
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Speaker 4: The kind of change and the kind of unsettled energy
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Speaker 4: that we've been seeing in the space, and we have
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Speaker 4: clear advice about how to use the methodologies of community
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Speaker 4: and spirituality as balancing strategies through this time. And of
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Speaker 4: course it doesn't mean that we won't participate in the
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Speaker 4: turbulence and in all that's going on. But what it
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Speaker 4: means that we'll come out ahead of the game, will
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Speaker 4: come out with our sanity. We'll be all the sanity there,
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Speaker 4: and we'll be coming out, you know, protected, We'll be
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Speaker 4: coming out in balance as much in balance as we
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Speaker 4: can be.
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Speaker 5: You know, once we have done what we have we've.
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Speaker 4: Been guided to do, once we stick close to our ancestors,
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Speaker 4: once we follow the teachings, once we start dwelling community
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Speaker 4: and extending a duty of care to each other as
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Speaker 4: we have been mandated to do since creation. And so
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Speaker 4: I think this this period of time that we've been
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Speaker 4: going through, I think it's a call to reckoning a
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Speaker 4: Paul to say, well, have we been faithful as human beings?
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Speaker 4: Have we been faithful to our humanity? Have been faithful
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Speaker 4: to our spirituality? Have been we've been faithful to who
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Speaker 4: we are coming into the space with the responsibility to lead,
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Speaker 4: to teach, to guide the mentor to help to restore balance.
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Speaker 4: I think this is definitely a time of accounting, a
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Speaker 4: time when you know, the celestial space is saying to
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Speaker 4: us downe on this earth.
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Speaker 5: Space, do we have it together here? You know?
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Speaker 4: Are we holding it together? Are we making sure that
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Speaker 4: everyone is well? Are we looking at well being as
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Speaker 4: an objective in life, not just health, but way beyond help,
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Speaker 4: that whole thing of well being where it's not just
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Speaker 4: about the physical, but about the spiritual, about the intellectual, mental,
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Speaker 4: the social, the economic. Looking with a holistic view as
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Speaker 4: how we're navigating the Earth space and saying, you know,
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Speaker 4: we have walked away from much that kept us in well.
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Speaker 5: Being, and now it's a time to turn around.
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Speaker 4: We're not going to go back and fetch everything, but
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Speaker 4: you know, in the teaching of Sankova, going to fetch
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Speaker 4: what is needed to help us now to navigate a future.
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Speaker 4: And we're talking about a future that is wholesome, a
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Speaker 4: future where we stop walking away from but start walking
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Speaker 4: further towards where we're coming from, because we cannot be
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Speaker 4: other than who we have been and who we are,
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Speaker 4: so walking back into who we are, you know, whole
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Speaker 4: beings with a sense of love and caring for each
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Speaker 4: other with a sense of love and caring and how
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Speaker 4: to knowing, how to live in community, how to live well.
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Speaker 5: And I'm talking too much, right.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely not see while you were talking, and I didn't
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Speaker 3: share this part in the memo. So for the balance
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Speaker 3: of our broadcast this month, everyone is required to bring
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Speaker 3: a glass of choice.
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Speaker 6: I'm having a natural beverage made of peach juice that's
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Speaker 6: slightly carbonated. So for those the things that I'm having
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Speaker 6: a cocktail, it may appear so, but it is from
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Speaker 6: very natural, organic peach juice. I just want to highlight that.
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Speaker 6: And I'm sipping between all of the wonderful nuggets of
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Speaker 6: knowledge and wisdom and understanding that you're sharing. So it's
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Speaker 6: important that we speak to that. It's interesting, Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 6: go ahead please.
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Speaker 4: It's interesting that you bring to the table the conversation
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Speaker 4: that confirmation and drinking something natural, because that's definitely one
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Speaker 4: of the messages we've been getting, you know, going back
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Speaker 4: to look at our natural energies. What is it that
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Speaker 4: flows to us naturally, what is it that comes to
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Speaker 4: us naturally? You know, we do an every day wearing
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Speaker 4: of many masks that's at this point not serving us well.
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Speaker 5: Anymore.
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Speaker 4: And so one of these things that's Spirts spoke to
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Speaker 4: in this house earlier this year was the whole thing
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Speaker 4: of going to look back at what our natural energies
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Speaker 4: are and take the responsibility to restore us. What are
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Speaker 4: the natural ways that we navigate with our God being?
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Speaker 4: How do we make meaning of that? How do we
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Speaker 4: navigate with nature? How do we make meaning of nature?
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Speaker 4: How do we position nature? How do we possession our
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Speaker 4: position ourselves as part of our adjunct of nature? How
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Speaker 4: are we looking at embracing gratitude, embracing humility, embracing empowerment,
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Speaker 4: embracing freedoms, embracing so much that is part of the
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Speaker 4: natural flow of life, but a lot of which has
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Speaker 4: walked into very unnatural and imbalanced basis. How do we
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Speaker 4: reclaim balance? How do we nurture that? And how do
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Speaker 4: we ensure that we stay balance most often than not?
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Speaker 4: Because you'll always, you know, if you go to do
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Speaker 4: you'll always have the question of imbalance.
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Speaker 5: But if you go to the idea and the under
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Speaker 5: divine law of divine oneness, you.
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Speaker 4: Will say that all has to dwell together well for
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Speaker 4: the for us to be a whole, for us to
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Speaker 4: be able to function and for us to claim any
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Speaker 4: kind of shall I use the word happiness. So we
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Speaker 4: have to create those realities through how we make meaning,
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Speaker 4: through how we engage, We engage with our natural energies,
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Speaker 4: and how those natural energies flow to really walk into
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Speaker 4: this kind of joy and happiness and and you know,
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Speaker 4: wonderful ness that we want from life.
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Speaker 3: And that's what it's funny to bring that because again
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Speaker 3: you're always present. We were having a conversation earlier and
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Speaker 3: part of what was happening in that gathering, and they
17:56
Speaker 3: use a very interesting term in our.
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Speaker 2: Cafe.
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Speaker 3: So yes, it was archaeology, and it was ecology, and
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Speaker 3: it was culture, and it was history and heritage preservation
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Speaker 3: blended in a conversation with some scholars, but speaking in
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Speaker 3: the context of what do we do to create community
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Speaker 3: that's supportive of this type of ancestral veneration of our
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Speaker 3: legacy in contemporary times, and starting from the monuments that
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Speaker 3: we hold dear, the museums that are usually forts and
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Speaker 3: spaces with dungeons and other lower energy spaces, and how
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Speaker 3: do we give a narrative to some of these spaces
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Speaker 3: that are historically accurate and culturally appropriate or sensitive, and
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Speaker 3: make it interesting and inviting, so that our future generations
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Speaker 3: have a desire to even know eactly and to preserve
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Speaker 3: these things. Not so much preserve that you should celebrate enslavement.
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Speaker 3: That's not what we're saying, but to honor and celebrate
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Speaker 3: the strength, the thriveability, not just the survivability, but the
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Speaker 3: thriveability of us, our ancestors, and our ascendants, our future
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Speaker 3: ascendants that are coming through these same corridors, these same pathways,
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Speaker 3: these same trids. So it was wonderful to hear from
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Speaker 3: brothers and sisters from the continent, from other parts of
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Speaker 3: eur Asia, from Central and South America, Canada, North America,
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Speaker 3: of course, the Caribbean, and the forty eight contiguous US
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Speaker 3: in the same space where everyone, and if they didn't agree,
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Speaker 3: they got over what they didn't agree with, accepted the
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Speaker 3: true that our truth to our narratives have to be
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Speaker 3: told without rasure, without apology, and with truth and honor
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Speaker 3: to our ancestors. So to hear that, and then to
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Speaker 3: hear the silence of those that know that they have
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Speaker 3: been responsible, at least in this community here in the
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Speaker 3: Virgin Islands, specifically Tire in Saint Croix, that they are
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Speaker 3: responsible and are puppets in a system that doesn't facilitate
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Speaker 3: the type of truth and honor and integrity that we
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Speaker 3: speak of. It made them pause and it kept them
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Speaker 3: silent in this very public space before I came to
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Speaker 3: do this session with Deer. So I'm coming and I'm
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Speaker 3: bringing that in the context because I ask people that
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Speaker 3: to come and listen and watch to see how these
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Speaker 3: are the types of thing because this is what's happening everywhere.
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Speaker 2: You know. It's now very trendy. I'm gonna use that
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Speaker 2: term very trendy.
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Speaker 3: People ran into Africa and African consciousness and finding out
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Speaker 3: putting altars inside of museums and old forts and tang
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Speaker 3: people wasn't doing that before, but now people recognize that
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Speaker 3: they go into these spaces, they touch the walls, they
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Speaker 3: ball and cry and feel every spirit that they thought
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Speaker 3: they weren't gonna feel that went through these doors of
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Speaker 3: no return, and now it's becoming a common space to
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Speaker 3: you don't go inside of Elmina Castle and not bring
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Speaker 3: an offering, whether you believe and African traditional institutions are
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Speaker 3: not you gonna bring a flower, You're gonna bring something.
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Speaker 3: You all to leave something in one of those kanas
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Speaker 3: and those alter sacred spaces in twenty twenty four for sure. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: so and I know you've seen that, and I know
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Speaker 3: you've experienced that. So that's the reason why I ask
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Speaker 3: what things that you sense that we should highlight moving forward.
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Speaker 4: It's interesting that you mentioned Elmina because and you mentioned
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Speaker 4: the offering, because if you don't bring one, one is
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Speaker 4: taken from you, and it could be, yes, it is true,
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Speaker 4: it could be all the tears. You know, tears can
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Speaker 4: be a oneful tribute in a space where you are
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Speaker 4: powerfully led to plans to release and to really kind
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Speaker 4: of offer that as an opportunity for the ancestral energies
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Speaker 4: in that space to feel recognized, to be remembered. So,
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Speaker 4: you know, sometimes people don't realize that one way or
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Speaker 4: the other, they're leaving some there and if it's not
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Speaker 4: even that, it's their footprints, their energy. So one way
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Speaker 4: or the other, we give that people have walked out
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Speaker 4: of the understanding of you know, how we are energetically
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Speaker 4: and that everywhere you go you leave a print, you
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Speaker 4: leave something. And it's just to me very very powerful
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Speaker 4: that we can walk back, we can see ourselves walking back,
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Speaker 4: and I think this time and the space again, as
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Speaker 4: I said, it is a reckoning, but I think there's
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Speaker 4: such potential for growth. There's a great potential. And I'm
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Speaker 4: sure so much is going to be destroyed, and this
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Speaker 4: is where we have to stand firm. So much is
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Speaker 4: going to be destroyed, from perspectives to governments to buildings.
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Speaker 4: So there's going to be a lot of destruction, but
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Speaker 4: in a useful way. Because I said to somebody the
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Speaker 4: other day, you know, some places in the world need
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Speaker 4: to be demolished.
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Speaker 5: Wash grandmother washed down with JS there you go, and bettal,
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Speaker 5: then mud, you.
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Speaker 4: Know, smudgeled, white sage, smudget, sandal, modular, all things we
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Speaker 4: can do, and then the rebuilding has to happen. But
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Speaker 4: some some of that, not all of it, Some of
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Speaker 4: it can be prevented because if people start doing the
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Speaker 4: cleansing work they were building, they're releasing a lot, a
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Speaker 4: lot of the negativity that we have introduced in our cultures,
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Speaker 4: reducing and releasing so much of other people's cultures that
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Speaker 4: we have commandeered or that has.
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Speaker 5: Been forced upon us. And we we now, you know.
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Speaker 4: Hold so dear that you can't tell that we never
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Speaker 4: bond with that, you know, yes, I mean you know
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Speaker 4: we still I still am amazed at people who embrace
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Speaker 4: Christianity in some work, some certain ways. You know, Christianity
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Speaker 4: was used to enslave us, and there they're black skinned people,
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Speaker 4: black minded people, black people who go there and die
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Speaker 4: for the Christ today.
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Speaker 5: I mean, really ask the questions.
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Speaker 4: At least before you do that, now, before you offer
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Speaker 4: yourself to be quick, ask a couple of questions, right,
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Speaker 4: because at least know why you're doing what you're doing
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Speaker 4: and know that you're making an informed choice to do that.
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Speaker 5: But we're just going.
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Speaker 4: Around sometimes like like we have no capacity to think,
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Speaker 4: we have no capacity to the reason. And we need
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Speaker 4: to stop that because that's not a natural energy for
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Speaker 4: black people. We build the pyramids, there's not a natural
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Speaker 4: energy flow for us. That's not our natural energy. We're innovative.
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Speaker 4: We didn't become carbon illiterate, and that because somebody said,
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Speaker 4: so that's not possible. It's not people's words that make
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Speaker 4: who you are. It's you who know yourself and define yourself.
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Speaker 4: That's what's important. And so going into this new space
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Speaker 4: of time, these are some things we have to seriously
25:53
Speaker 4: look at. How do we define ourselves.
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Speaker 5: Who are we?
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Speaker 4: What is our identity? People take the conversation of identity very,
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Speaker 4: very superficially, But if you look, part of the whole
26:03
Speaker 4: system of enslavement was founded on the whole, the whole
26:10
Speaker 4: principle of removing people from them identity, separating them, change
26:15
Speaker 4: their names, give them another name for God and another
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Speaker 4: meaning for God, changing so much about who you are.
26:24
Speaker 4: And it was successful to a certain extent. But can
26:27
Speaker 4: we now successfully reverse that. Come into our own languages,
26:35
Speaker 4: come into our own playing back our own names or
26:38
Speaker 4: names carry a vibration that is unique to itself. Languages
26:43
Speaker 4: have vibrations. So even of speaking English, youngest more of
26:47
Speaker 4: us need to learn to speak one or the other
26:50
Speaker 4: language of our ancestors. If it's even to greet the
26:54
Speaker 4: pay and tributes, show even that little respect, you know,
26:58
Speaker 4: even to learn to greet something a couple of words,
27:02
Speaker 4: something claim that sometimes you need it.
27:05
Speaker 5: Don't need a lot, you know, you just need to
27:06
Speaker 5: do a lot with this that you have.
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Speaker 4: Learn to work and use them, Learn to work in
27:15
Speaker 4: any one of your ancestrul languages and use them. Keep
27:19
Speaker 4: that thread, keep that connection. So going forward, we have
27:23
Speaker 4: to be looking very intently at you know, this is
27:28
Speaker 4: who we are is not. We don't have anybody to
27:31
Speaker 4: save us. We we have the big question of accountability
27:35
Speaker 4: and we have the big question of how do we
27:37
Speaker 4: create the reality that we want. On Sunday in our
27:42
Speaker 4: group conversation, we all conversation was you know about you know,
27:47
Speaker 4: for the kind of way taking that job of being
27:51
Speaker 4: the CEO of your life and writing a job description
27:54
Speaker 4: you are the sea of your life, write your job description?
27:58
Speaker 7: What?
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Speaker 4: Yes, you know it was it was funny, but it
28:04
Speaker 4: was so profound and you know, the ancestors brought that message.
28:08
Speaker 4: So going into the next phase of our life, we
28:10
Speaker 4: have to figure how we take charge of our lives
28:14
Speaker 4: and being the scene in our lives. How do we conduct,
28:16
Speaker 4: what strategies we use, what methodologies we bring into plane?
28:20
Speaker 4: What what are going to be our core values? What
28:22
Speaker 4: are going to be our sake? What's going to be
28:25
Speaker 4: our sacred principles? How are we going to go forward
28:28
Speaker 4: into the space that we're entering as we engage with
28:33
Speaker 4: the various new years.
28:35
Speaker 5: How do we do that?
28:36
Speaker 4: How do we how do we you know, it's in
28:38
Speaker 4: a lot of ways that's the same old, same old year.
28:41
Speaker 5: Coming around. What are you going to do to make
28:43
Speaker 5: it new?
28:43
Speaker 4: Because we're calling it a new year, we have the
28:45
Speaker 4: same name, all the months are same, nothing else changes.
28:48
Speaker 4: What are we going to make it new? Because what
28:50
Speaker 4: we can do is really focus on making ourselves new.
28:55
Speaker 5: New.
28:55
Speaker 4: Some learn some new ways of looking at life, some
28:58
Speaker 4: more elevated ways of looking at life, some more useful
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Speaker 4: ways at looking at life.
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Speaker 5: We need to stop.
29:04
Speaker 4: There's so many behaviors that were introduced to us in
29:08
Speaker 4: many of our spaces are energen Indigenous people. We never
29:11
Speaker 4: had child abuse, we never have spouse abuse, We never
29:14
Speaker 4: have a holdy for those things. How do we know
29:17
Speaker 4: in holding ourselves accountable see us shaping a reality where
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Speaker 4: those things are taboo that don't have on No.
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Speaker 3: I think the incredible. It's incredible that you're saying you
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Speaker 3: were definitely here with us and saying for did that
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Speaker 3: because these these are comments and points that you're stating
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Speaker 3: that were highlighted earlier this morning before we went on
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Speaker 3: this hike.
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Speaker 2: To the Maroon Sick Sanctuary Lands.
29:56
Speaker 3: While we were on this hike, this conversation came forward
29:59
Speaker 3: to that if our people, especially our children, knew who
30:04
Speaker 3: they were. It's been an identity that respected their ancestral
30:11
Speaker 3: legacy in its highacense, not in its loathsets, in its highacentse,
30:16
Speaker 3: that they would not be killing one another. They would
30:20
Speaker 3: be these drive bys. We wouldn't keep finding missing children
30:27
Speaker 3: or women for us, right right, right, and and right now.
30:34
Speaker 3: There has been such a frequency in these types of
30:39
Speaker 3: horrific events and homicides and patricide and matricide and infanticide
30:47
Speaker 3: and femicide and all other types of sides that persons
30:52
Speaker 3: have become literally catatonic like non feeling, like non responses,
30:58
Speaker 3: and that's not natural for us. And so through letting
31:05
Speaker 3: persons see, like you know, there were certain youths. There
31:08
Speaker 3: was a youth that traveled with us today and is
31:11
Speaker 3: doing interns. And what's interesting is that his area of
31:14
Speaker 3: study is engineering. However, he has a very personal interest
31:21
Speaker 3: and a minor study which is now becoming a major study.
31:24
Speaker 2: So he may end up getting.
31:26
Speaker 3: Dual degrees in cultural heritage preservation and Caribbean studies because
31:32
Speaker 3: it's becoming clear to him that for him to become
31:35
Speaker 3: a civil engineer and to actually be able to shift
31:40
Speaker 3: on the infrastructure, development's hardscape, landscape and otherwise in the
31:46
Speaker 3: future for his children and his grandchildren and his great grandchildren,
31:51
Speaker 3: that he needs to know this history and legacy accurately,
31:55
Speaker 3: that he needs to do these spaces where people like
31:58
Speaker 3: you know, even when we found and a cup or
32:02
Speaker 3: a piece of plastic or things. You know, we went
32:06
Speaker 3: up in a part of the ridge and found a
32:08
Speaker 3: plastic cup that shouldn't be up there because this is
32:13
Speaker 3: an area that only the cattle and wild gold trump
32:18
Speaker 3: and people. So we know that that plastic cup from
32:22
Speaker 3: whichever company Dixie it came from, couldn't ad just up
32:25
Speaker 3: and grow off a tree, you understand, And somebody just
32:30
Speaker 3: left that cup in a very and so you know,
32:32
Speaker 3: needless to say, all of us, it seemed like everybody
32:34
Speaker 3: must have picked that cup up and anything else we found.
32:39
Speaker 3: So we had our little patch, a little patch of
32:43
Speaker 3: trash when we came back down the hill. Because that's
32:47
Speaker 3: at least those of us that go into these spaces,
32:49
Speaker 3: because we know, you can't go into a Jewish cemetery
32:52
Speaker 3: and leave nothing. You can't go into the Arlington cemetery
32:56
Speaker 3: with the military bodies are are buried and it leaves.
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Speaker 2: Not tang.
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Speaker 5: You understand, space like that.
33:10
Speaker 3: Oh, so we and and that's what's important that there
33:14
Speaker 3: there's organizations. You know, there's so many organizations that have
33:17
Speaker 3: to be mentioned because you know, you've heard me mentioned
33:19
Speaker 3: the National Park Service we speak, you know, the Version
33:23
Speaker 3: Islands National Park out of Saint John, the Christianstead Historic
33:28
Speaker 3: Heritage Park in Saint Croix, along with others because it's
33:31
Speaker 3: also Buck Island Monument.
33:34
Speaker 2: Salt River.
33:36
Speaker 3: Heritage Site as well, but that's more of a The
33:40
Speaker 3: Salt River is really connected to the indigenous preservation of lands,
33:46
Speaker 3: and that's a site where the genocidists Christophe Cologne some
33:54
Speaker 3: call them Columbus, attempted to come into Salt River on
33:59
Speaker 3: November fourteen, fourteen ninety three and was kept at sea
34:05
Speaker 3: by Tyina women who killed all on the boat that
34:10
Speaker 3: tried to come into Saint Croix except one to send
34:14
Speaker 3: him back to tell them don't come here. In an
34:17
Speaker 3: area that Cabos, which translates to the Cape of Arrows.
34:23
Speaker 3: So that's a historic space, a national heritage space, and
34:29
Speaker 3: the entire island from there to north side where the
34:33
Speaker 3: Maroons had their encampments and were able to flee to
34:39
Speaker 3: different islands for their freedom, some choosing to lose to
34:43
Speaker 3: give their life to the sea instead of remaining an enslavement.
34:48
Speaker 3: There's like all the way to contentment, one of the
34:51
Speaker 3: oldest enslavement communities in Saint Croix, all the way to
34:56
Speaker 3: east end out with their calling point udal U now,
35:00
Speaker 3: which is the easternmost point of lands owned by the
35:04
Speaker 3: United States. And it's interesting that this entire eighty four
35:08
Speaker 3: square miles of Saint Croix has been designated as a
35:11
Speaker 3: National Heritage Area. However, there are forces that are trying
35:15
Speaker 3: to keep us from being able to move that type
35:18
Speaker 3: of culture preservation forward. And people are catching on. You
35:24
Speaker 3: can't go to these spaces and these sites and not
35:27
Speaker 3: pour at least water and give a word yeah of silence,
35:34
Speaker 3: or else your body gonna fall off the side of
35:35
Speaker 3: the hill.
35:37
Speaker 4: Right, It's some recognition, some recognition makes some connection. Yeah,
35:42
Speaker 4: it's it's it's I mean, that's not nuclear science. That's
35:45
Speaker 4: just so ordinary that I mean, you walk into people's space,
35:49
Speaker 4: you say, hell, do.
35:49
Speaker 3: Do right, right, right, And that's and this is so powerful.
35:57
Speaker 3: That's why what you say and what you share and
36:00
Speaker 3: what you've offered is words of powers, words of reflection.
36:04
Speaker 3: These are the types of the orders of power, words
36:06
Speaker 3: of reflection outside of you know, we can usily go
36:09
Speaker 3: into dates, We can easily go into times, zones and
36:12
Speaker 3: all of that. However, to speak of how we need
36:16
Speaker 3: to give authentic ma sure I put that word first.
36:21
Speaker 3: Authentic and respectful recognition, justice and development. That was supposed
36:29
Speaker 3: to be the theme for the International Decade for People,
36:33
Speaker 3: the first International Decade for People of African Descent from
36:36
Speaker 3: January first, twenty fifteen to December thirty first, twenty twenty four.
36:42
Speaker 3: Here we are in the final month, the final weeks,
36:45
Speaker 3: and we still have more than seventy five percent of
36:50
Speaker 3: our African community that had no idea that the United
36:56
Speaker 3: Nations designated from January twenty fifteen to December twenty twenty
37:03
Speaker 3: four as the Decade for People of African Descent with
37:09
Speaker 3: a theme of recognition, justice and development with people of
37:15
Speaker 3: African descent. And if we look at history and look
37:18
Speaker 3: at what has happened in these last decade that was
37:21
Speaker 3: supposed to be about recognition, just and development, we saw
37:25
Speaker 3: some of the least amount of recognition, some of the
37:29
Speaker 3: most horrific forms of injustice, that'spection, and definitely, definitely some
37:37
Speaker 3: disregard and outright outright exploitative forms of lack and that
37:45
Speaker 3: lack development for people of African descent.
37:48
Speaker 2: So hopefully.
37:51
Speaker 3: The General Assembly and its infinite wisdom will gather as
37:55
Speaker 3: they are gathering now and declare a second Internet decades.
38:02
Speaker 4: But you know there has something has to change because,
38:05
Speaker 4: as I said, one of the things we see happening
38:06
Speaker 4: now is this whole thing of accountability, and these people
38:10
Speaker 4: have to hold themselves accountable for their failures because they're
38:13
Speaker 4: having more failures than they're having successes right now, right
38:18
Speaker 4: And what is going to happen in this period where
38:21
Speaker 4: I mean, if you look at what's happening in the
38:22
Speaker 4: in the celestial space, if you look in what's happening
38:25
Speaker 4: in the in the Earth space, you're getting the same story.
38:28
Speaker 4: Things need to change, and so you're going to find
38:31
Speaker 4: that anything that's not enough firm and sincere foundation stands
38:35
Speaker 4: a risk of falling because it cannot face that question
38:38
Speaker 4: of accountability. It cannot stand up to be counted, it
38:42
Speaker 4: cannot stand up to be held responsible for its mandate
38:45
Speaker 4: because it's way out of line with anything that is
38:48
Speaker 4: intended to do. We're de clearing all these things, but
38:50
Speaker 4: what are we doing after the declaration which are we
38:54
Speaker 4: doing after the declaration? You know, I tell people generally, yes, pray,
38:58
Speaker 4: and it's good thing to pray.
39:00
Speaker 5: We all know that prayer is powerful.
39:01
Speaker 4: But anytime you pray, when you get up, were prepared
39:03
Speaker 4: to be part of the fulfillment of your parents?
39:09
Speaker 5: We are.
39:10
Speaker 3: You might need to say that a little louder to
39:12
Speaker 3: the people in the back of the room. I don't
39:15
Speaker 3: take every time. I know, the front row and the
39:18
Speaker 3: choir hear you, you know, oh yes, a far in
39:22
Speaker 3: that kindor of a suck.
39:24
Speaker 5: Yeah.
39:24
Speaker 4: But some of these organizations are not in the back
39:27
Speaker 4: of the room. They're upfront and personal and they just
39:31
Speaker 4: declare and they declare, but what are they doing in
39:34
Speaker 4: a concrete way? Sometimes they're not even talking to the
39:37
Speaker 4: people they're declaring about. You know, and you've heard me
39:42
Speaker 4: say this before. Reparation for me is a good example.
39:44
Speaker 4: A good example. Who's on the divination with the ancestors
39:47
Speaker 4: who say, what will appease your spirit? We all here
39:50
Speaker 4: second guessing we want this, we want that, and everybody
39:52
Speaker 4: want to money or your money going. Who's on the
39:55
Speaker 4: divination to ask ancestor energies because they're not dead. If
39:58
Speaker 4: we talk about ancestors know their lives. We know that
40:01
Speaker 4: in spirits space, their life, the men as well as
40:04
Speaker 4: we want them to be. But we're working on that.
40:06
Speaker 4: Who has done what is necessary to say what it
40:09
Speaker 4: is would appease these these how much Miller ancestors who
40:14
Speaker 4: have been badly put upon. We are putting our ideas
40:16
Speaker 4: and opinions out there with a half the time we
40:19
Speaker 4: take the time to understand their culture. It's not every
40:22
Speaker 4: culture you can go in and just say, oh, I'm
40:24
Speaker 4: sorry and it's done.
40:25
Speaker 5: No. No, when you have offended people's spirit.
40:32
Speaker 4: In among our ancestors, when you offended people's spirit, sorry,
40:36
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, and you're going to go to your business,
40:37
Speaker 4: it's not enough. There has to be the processes we
40:41
Speaker 4: talk about as appeasement. These have to be done. Anna
40:46
Speaker 4: has to be restored. And so we're pronouncing and we're talking,
40:52
Speaker 4: but many of us are not taking the time to
40:55
Speaker 4: really investigate and to see how we bring proper protocols
41:00
Speaker 4: to some of the things with which we're engaging. How
41:05
Speaker 4: you bring proper protocols? How do you bring what is
41:08
Speaker 4: known to the people when you come and apologize. Which
41:15
Speaker 4: language you're going to use English, the language is colonized
41:18
Speaker 4: and did all of that listen to me?
41:21
Speaker 5: Now?
41:21
Speaker 4: So you know this is a good I think we're
41:24
Speaker 4: at a good place, you know, because we're at a
41:25
Speaker 4: place where where being seriously asked to reflect.
41:29
Speaker 5: And going forward.
41:30
Speaker 4: If we don't do that, well, we're not going to be,
41:34
Speaker 4: you know, doing well as part of the future generation.
41:38
Speaker 4: We're going to fall by the wayside. Because the changes
41:42
Speaker 4: must come. They must be made if we are to survive,
41:48
Speaker 4: if we are to be able to make decisions for
41:50
Speaker 4: the same generation. We need to make some changes. We
41:54
Speaker 4: need to do some things differently. We need to do
41:58
Speaker 4: and talk less. That's our all message from way back when.
42:02
Speaker 4: But we're still doing too much talking. As the ancestors said,
42:09
Speaker 4: everybody is saying ancestors, ancestors. No, Okay, there's a time
42:12
Speaker 4: they weren't saying. Now they're saying, but they don't know
42:13
Speaker 4: what it means. It's still a blank slate, a set
42:18
Speaker 4: of a set of people that don't have faces.
42:24
Speaker 5: The ancestors I was.
42:25
Speaker 4: Writing the other day because you know, that's one of
42:27
Speaker 4: the ways they expressed themselves to me, and and the
42:30
Speaker 4: what came she was like, nobody would really understand because
42:34
Speaker 4: who else, stop to count their tears? In all those
42:37
Speaker 4: people in the slave ships coming here, have we stopped
42:39
Speaker 4: to count the tears they shed? Have we stopped to
42:43
Speaker 4: count even imagine the number of tears? And in one
42:47
Speaker 4: of the places said did the tears fall one by
42:49
Speaker 4: one or did they come bucket.
42:50
Speaker 5: Load by bucket load?
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Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
42:54
Speaker 5: Yea their tears. I was gonna talk about reparation. Have
42:59
Speaker 5: we to the tears?
43:01
Speaker 4: Can we say to somebody, you need to cry a
43:03
Speaker 4: million tiers to even come close to what your ancestores, right,
43:09
Speaker 4: So tell me about reparation.
43:12
Speaker 3: Well, well, this is what I'm going to say, because
43:15
Speaker 3: it appears that there's someone that's trying to shift the
43:19
Speaker 3: flow of what we're speaking to in terms of truth
43:22
Speaker 3: to power here. So whoever is putting these particular commentaries,
43:27
Speaker 3: I want to I want to make sure that they
43:32
Speaker 3: understand that this is not acceptable. So whoever JSJD is,
43:37
Speaker 3: I call them out and I would encourage you to
43:40
Speaker 3: remove yourself from this platform because this is not acceptable.
43:45
Speaker 3: These commentaries are to be deleted, and I implore you,
43:49
Speaker 3: in the name of all that's honorable, to remove yourself
43:53
Speaker 3: from that space.
43:54
Speaker 4: Yes, but you know, people, people are where they are.
43:57
Speaker 4: Perhaps it's a good reason for that person say because
44:01
Speaker 4: that person's spirit is hearing what we're saying. That's probably
44:03
Speaker 4: one of the reasons they're putting these comments. Whatever the
44:06
Speaker 4: comments are not able to see.
44:08
Speaker 2: Okay, do you.
44:09
Speaker 4: Know that doesn't bother me in the least the way
44:12
Speaker 4: they are and we accept that, and I love you,
44:14
Speaker 4: my brother, my sister, whoever you are. But know that
44:18
Speaker 4: truth is not amounter of opinion. And we're going forward
44:23
Speaker 4: into a space where we have to work as community
44:26
Speaker 4: or else we will all fail. African people, Black people people,
44:30
Speaker 4: we're strongest when we work as a collective. Should the
44:34
Speaker 4: dissenting voices are going to hold hold you back. You're
44:37
Speaker 4: going to fall by the wayside if you don't get
44:39
Speaker 4: to the program, if you don't start extending a duty
44:42
Speaker 4: of care to your neighbor, to the people within your
44:44
Speaker 4: sphere of influence, if you don't start show and live
44:48
Speaker 4: in a way that says I care about you and
44:51
Speaker 4: I know you care about me. I've got your back,
44:53
Speaker 4: You've got mine. If we don't really walk in that
44:57
Speaker 4: sense of community, you know, because that is only one
45:04
Speaker 4: creation story that talk about making man, I'm making making
45:08
Speaker 4: a man, I'm making our woman. Only one creation story
45:11
Speaker 4: goes that way in a because many other creation stories
45:16
Speaker 4: talk about community. Okay, so you choose your creation story,
45:22
Speaker 4: my brother. You choose your creation story and live your
45:24
Speaker 4: life accordingly. But live it sincerely and live it authentically.
45:27
Speaker 4: My brother and my sister, who I love you. Just
45:30
Speaker 4: try to be authentic in what you're doing and what
45:32
Speaker 4: you're saying. Find your own truth if you need to,
45:35
Speaker 4: because my truth may not be your truth. But we
45:40
Speaker 4: need to coake this in this place. And we need
45:42
Speaker 4: to know what we give value to. And that's another
45:45
Speaker 4: story for going forward into this new period of time
45:48
Speaker 4: that we are talking about. What do we value? What
45:51
Speaker 4: do we hold sacred? For example, women are not sacred
45:55
Speaker 4: in our societies anymore.
45:57
Speaker 5: Women who are? You know?
45:58
Speaker 4: People say things like, well, you know you're want to
46:00
Speaker 4: destroyer people, you destroy the women. You want women birth
46:05
Speaker 4: men and their birth themselves. They're they're men, they're birth
46:08
Speaker 4: women and women are not sacred. Life is not sacred,
46:13
Speaker 4: women are not. So what what what are we going
46:15
Speaker 4: to value? Mm hmmm, what I'm gonna hold sacred?
46:20
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
46:22
Speaker 2: This came up today too.
46:23
Speaker 3: I'm it's the synergy of what keeps happening and how
46:28
Speaker 3: important it is to see our spaces as sacred, to
46:32
Speaker 3: see our women as sick. And it's not to say
46:36
Speaker 3: that we don't see men as sacred, because women have
46:39
Speaker 3: to hold up men because we push and birth them.
46:47
Speaker 3: So it's a very different kind of vibe. So I'm
46:50
Speaker 3: grateful for the sisters that are on the platform that
46:53
Speaker 3: are saying that, yes, people hate the truth. Yes they're
46:57
Speaker 3: saying that it's important that we speak the truth, and
47:01
Speaker 3: that we keep speaking the truth no matter what, no
47:05
Speaker 3: matter what, because these are the things as we're speaking,
47:09
Speaker 3: and you've touched on something that I would be remiss
47:12
Speaker 3: if I didn't highlight that, and you're right, we come
47:16
Speaker 3: into these vibes, and I am so grateful that it's
47:22
Speaker 3: important that persons recognize the power of the feminine, not
47:29
Speaker 3: disregarding the presence and power the masculine, but just that
47:34
Speaker 3: in these last several centuries, the women have been marginalized,
47:40
Speaker 3: whether it's being said whether we're seen as blue English,
47:45
Speaker 3: whether we're seen as witches or involved in witchcraft, for
47:48
Speaker 3: delivering children naturally, for being able to understand or biology naturally,
47:54
Speaker 3: for being able to be seers naturally and blessed, and
47:59
Speaker 3: that it's okay for people to do sacrifice speak of
48:04
Speaker 3: the blood of an annoint in the blood of but
48:07
Speaker 3: if you make a blood sacrifice in an African it's
48:12
Speaker 3: a problem. And how we all between what is voodoo?
48:18
Speaker 3: When voodoo, when you translated, only mean spirit, it only
48:23
Speaker 3: means See. If you don't know anything besides the English language,
48:27
Speaker 3: you're at a You're at at a place of disempowerment
48:31
Speaker 3: because English is not our original ancestral language.
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Speaker 2: It's what we can communicate with.
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Speaker 3: And with some of us are very very talented, skilled
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Speaker 3: and a wordsmith and just have it naturally with eloquent
48:44
Speaker 3: and grace and meaning and passion. However, our ancestral languages,
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Speaker 3: as you're saying, even if you just speak a few words,
48:52
Speaker 3: we people say amen. And if we start, don't let
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Speaker 3: me get started on the root of amen. Amen, Amen
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Speaker 3: what a mom looked like? You know, because it could
49:03
Speaker 3: offend some people because they don't know. And if you
49:07
Speaker 3: don't know, then you get caught up in believing. And
49:11
Speaker 3: if you deal with only belief, we can break that
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Speaker 3: word down.
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Speaker 2: B E L I E.
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Speaker 3: I'm a pause there, because you can be lie a lot.
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Speaker 3: Good knowing means when we.
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Speaker 2: Speak of.
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Speaker 3: We're saying, in the matter nature, know yourself for your
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Speaker 3: greatest and highest good, or some people.
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Speaker 2: Know yourself. Not.
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Speaker 3: We don't say believe in yourself. That's a song. That's
49:46
Speaker 3: not what we do. We speak of what you do
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Speaker 3: and you strengthening your knowledge through wisdom and practice and
49:53
Speaker 3: integrity and loyalty and repeat that. And some people aren't comfortable,
50:00
Speaker 3: aren't ready to do that level of truth and truth.
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Speaker 3: We're speaking of that principle that in our parent and smite,
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Speaker 3: how we smite, how we Ancacentium, Renaissance and cestral tradition.
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Speaker 2: We use four.
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Speaker 3: Letters maaat my aunt, representing principles of truth, justice, order, propity,
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Speaker 3: that divine righteousness and harmony. Not everyone is ready to
50:30
Speaker 3: do that, because then and then alone, what you just
50:34
Speaker 3: finished saying about, even with reparations, there's a lot that's
50:38
Speaker 3: happening in the reparations, because now reparations is trendy. You know,
50:42
Speaker 3: it's probably around a space where everybody's reparation now, and
50:47
Speaker 3: that's beautiful. However, reparations of the twentieth century was about
50:51
Speaker 3: just getting the check in the money. Maybe the forty
50:54
Speaker 3: acres and the mule no host them, right, But that's
50:58
Speaker 3: not what reparation and reparations is.
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Speaker 2: Healing.
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Speaker 3: Reparations is healing the trauma. Repreation storing our family. Reparations
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Speaker 3: is rebuilding our nation and our community. And some people's
51:11
Speaker 3: strength is going and doing the trudge work all the time.
51:16
Speaker 3: Some people's strength is teaching people all the time. Some
51:22
Speaker 3: people's strength is being in the stealth like underground realms
51:27
Speaker 3: and doing all the militaristic strategic planning and strengthening all
51:32
Speaker 3: the time. And some people it's being in the garden.
51:36
Speaker 3: Some people as being the architect and the artisans. You see,
51:39
Speaker 3: it's like there's so many, it's like the rays of sunshine.
51:42
Speaker 3: And then we have people that get caught up in
51:46
Speaker 3: me fi meism and they if it's not led by them,
51:52
Speaker 3: then they don't want to participate.
51:55
Speaker 2: And I love how you said what.
51:57
Speaker 3: You said a few minutes ago and terms of this
52:01
Speaker 3: person that was coming in dropping comments that were inappropriate.
52:05
Speaker 3: When you said when you said, and you said, I
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Speaker 3: love you, I want to share with you that comment. Okay,
52:09
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, ladies, you both are beautiful. I was just
52:14
Speaker 3: trolling a bit to watch your show and I will
52:18
Speaker 3: quietly stop. Now see they wrote it right in the chat.
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Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, that's so wonderful.
52:26
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, thank you. So I'm grateful. I'm
52:33
Speaker 3: grateful that you were able to share what you shared
52:38
Speaker 3: with that kind of love, because you know, sometimes I
52:40
Speaker 3: can get a little sec matian and I'd be like
52:42
Speaker 3: my son, you need but you came with so much
52:45
Speaker 3: love and so much vibe that you know. Again, that's
52:49
Speaker 3: why I always refer to you as my spirit sister.
52:52
Speaker 3: There's a words cannot give beyond anything in this podcast broadcast,
52:58
Speaker 3: because these are the types of love. This is what
53:00
Speaker 3: I am always vibing when I engage in this particular
53:05
Speaker 3: platform with the Diva crew, and what has been brought
53:09
Speaker 3: forth through our illustrious sister and visionary Queen Angela and
53:13
Speaker 3: the other sisters that broadcast on him, you know, to
53:17
Speaker 3: the week. I think it's powerful to be able to
53:20
Speaker 3: have a platform where women are sharing their respective truths,
53:27
Speaker 3: their testimonies, their solutions, their economic drivers. And I encourage
53:33
Speaker 3: persons near and far that are watching this podcast listening
53:38
Speaker 3: to it wherever you are, support the podcasts like these
53:42
Speaker 3: that provide some inkling, some sense of self and integrity
53:49
Speaker 3: and loyalty and prosperity and balance and honor and harmony
53:54
Speaker 3: wherever you are, because that's why we do these things.
53:57
Speaker 3: It's not like we're making a you know, most of
54:00
Speaker 3: us have to do another full time type of employment
54:04
Speaker 3: to be able to have the leisure time to do
54:06
Speaker 3: these types of things. So when you see us coming
54:09
Speaker 3: here and sharing like this and bringing powerful leaders and
54:14
Speaker 3: stewards of spirituality in its African traditional institutional frame in
54:20
Speaker 3: addition to authorship, and you know, we didn't get a
54:23
Speaker 3: chance for you to read a particular collection of your poetry,
54:26
Speaker 3: but we'll do that in the future. Because I see
54:28
Speaker 3: we have a few more minutes, and I'd like for
54:30
Speaker 3: you to shake any closing commentary that you have with
54:34
Speaker 3: my listening.
54:35
Speaker 4: Listening and views that I'd like to give on and
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Speaker 4: respect to the spirit of this is a brother or sister.
54:43
Speaker 2: I have no idea, it's just anitial.
54:45
Speaker 4: This person just want to give on in respect to
54:48
Speaker 4: his spirit for being able to stand up and say,
54:50
Speaker 4: you know, that was not appropriate. These are the kind
54:53
Speaker 4: of people we want. These are the people, the kind
54:56
Speaker 4: of people who need to be the leader in our community.
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Speaker 4: Somebody who is willing to say yes, you know that
55:04
Speaker 4: wasn't so Kosha, I am good, you know, I recognize that,
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Speaker 4: and so you know, and respect to his spirit, her spirit,
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Speaker 4: whoever it is, or the person's spirit.
55:14
Speaker 5: You know.
55:15
Speaker 4: I think there's so much that we've talked about that
55:18
Speaker 4: bears repeating. But above all else, I love us to
55:24
Speaker 4: remember community and the duty of care that we all
55:31
Speaker 4: want to eat another.
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Speaker 5: I think, no matter what.
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Speaker 4: Kind of difficulties face us upon this earth journey, if
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Speaker 4: we can just maintain community, live with that appreciation of community,
55:43
Speaker 4: and I talk about the real meaning of community now
55:46
Speaker 4: as taught to us by our ancestors. If we can
55:49
Speaker 4: remember that, if you remember to take care for children,
55:53
Speaker 4: not to spirit a rod aspoil the child, but no
55:57
Speaker 4: the spirit the child, right, Spare the child, Spare them
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Speaker 4: from all the heartache and the tribulations that could face
56:06
Speaker 4: if we don't give them the proper guidance that they need.
56:10
Speaker 4: And the soot each of us taking care of each
56:13
Speaker 4: other's children really the really true foundational aspects of community.
56:17
Speaker 4: No matter what we face, we will survive. We will
56:22
Speaker 4: survive if we can go back to ancestral concepts of
56:26
Speaker 4: community and caring for each other as community does. I
56:32
Speaker 4: think that's one thing that's sadly missing from our lives,
56:35
Speaker 4: from places where we live. You know, somebody live there,
56:39
Speaker 4: and somebody live there, and somebody even the whole idea
56:42
Speaker 4: of neighbors.
56:44
Speaker 5: You don't hear that word so much anymore. It's as
56:47
Speaker 5: if it's endangered.
56:51
Speaker 4: So want to give thanks that we have the opportunity
56:54
Speaker 4: to reclaim so much.
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Speaker 3: I'm grateful because it's so much that you've shared tonight.
57:10
Speaker 3: I want to give thanks and praise for you, non
57:15
Speaker 3: Epofier of the San Kofia community, just being able to
57:20
Speaker 3: spare some words of power, some words of strength, and
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Speaker 3: words of ancestral veneration in the heights. I would ask
57:27
Speaker 3: that you close us out as we end this particular
57:34
Speaker 3: podcast if our speaks building legacy with the crew podcast
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Speaker 3: here tonight with some words, with some prayerful words in
57:45
Speaker 3: the ancestral language of your choice.
57:49
Speaker 4: You know, I'll use English because everybody has come into
57:52
Speaker 4: that and understands that. But I'd just like to say,
57:56
Speaker 4: you know, I want to give online respect to all
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Speaker 4: the ancestors of our various lands of the Caribbean space.
58:02
Speaker 4: I want them to know that we remember them, that
58:04
Speaker 4: we will make it that we will never forget, and
58:09
Speaker 4: that we will try to count the tears. We will
58:12
Speaker 4: try to count the tears. We'll try to remember how
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Speaker 4: they felt. Sometimes we don't think about them as human beings.
58:19
Speaker 4: We talk about ancestors and that's it.
58:20
Speaker 5: But there were.
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Speaker 4: Men, there were women, young men, young women, children, and
58:27
Speaker 4: we want to honor all of them who felt the fear,
58:33
Speaker 4: who felt the hopelessness, who felt being torn away from
58:37
Speaker 4: our home, who felt, you know, just never having a
58:42
Speaker 4: home again. What that felt like, because when they were enslaved,
58:46
Speaker 4: they didn't have homes. They had a place to rest
58:48
Speaker 4: their head as night, but they were not able to
58:50
Speaker 4: build homes, safe places where they and their children could be.
58:54
Speaker 4: That just never happened. And if we think about our
58:57
Speaker 4: ancestors in these ways, you know our prayers will have
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Speaker 4: to be for their continued elevation. We have to do
59:04
Speaker 4: the work to elevate them so that one day, as
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Speaker 4: ancestral spirits, they will be strong and they will continue
59:12
Speaker 4: the journey of spirit, you know, to return to the source,
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Speaker 4: but at a much higher level of vibration than when
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Speaker 4: before we trodd this earth space. Give thanks to all
59:23
Speaker 4: the ansers of this land. Give thanks to the ancestors
59:26
Speaker 4: of all the people who have been part of this conversation.
59:29
Speaker 4: And I give specially give thanks to the spirits of
59:31
Speaker 4: that brother system for sticking with that person and hearing
59:35
Speaker 4: how that person honored them by being upright.
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Speaker 3: I am grateful, good thanks thanks to our beloved listen.
59:43
Speaker 3: Thank you again and appropriate. It's been an honor and
59:47
Speaker 3: a privilege. And as I've said before, we're making this
59:49
Speaker 3: a regular frequence, So just prepared the first and Thursdays
59:54
Speaker 3: so we could just be ready so we can keep
59:57
Speaker 3: this type of versation long and perhaps even others join
1:00:00
Speaker 3: us to add to the versation in some of our
1:00:03
Speaker 3: future iterations. I know that there's a lot of activities
1:00:07
Speaker 3: coming forward. I'd like to make sure that we can
1:00:09
Speaker 3: also share some upkeep for the retreats that you're going
1:00:14
Speaker 3: to be hosting in twenty twenty five, so we'll be
1:00:16
Speaker 3: sharing some infomercials on that as well. And to our
1:00:19
Speaker 3: listeners and our beloved viewers, remember that culture heals humanity.
1:00:25
Speaker 3: Land is our foundation, and spiritual harmony unifies us, and
1:00:28
Speaker 3: we're encouraging you to do your part of supporting us.
1:00:32
Speaker 3: Speaks by continuing to build new legacy. And with that
1:00:38
Speaker 3: we say anthur jessinev, which is life, strength, health, wellness
1:00:44
Speaker 3: and prosperity. Forget that, get that thanks. We're always it's
1:00:51
Speaker 3: always an honor to be joined with you. It's just amazing.
1:00:56
Speaker 4: It's just beyond the words awards.
1:01:01
Speaker 2: And we're grateful. We're grateful. So that's a coming.
1:01:04
Speaker 3: It takes me a minute sometimes when we're doing this,
1:01:06
Speaker 3: So I'm always honored, and I keep telling you know,
1:01:09
Speaker 3: I keep telling me, well, you just you just keep
1:01:11
Speaker 3: doing this like you have it all together and moving together,
1:01:14
Speaker 3: and I tell them not necessarily, I do try keeping
1:01:19
Speaker 3: it in a positive frame. And I'm looking forward to
1:01:22
Speaker 3: our future broadcast so that we can at least keep
1:01:26
Speaker 3: this type of vibe going. So I know that people listen,
1:01:30
Speaker 3: and I'm always ending with the purpose to just keep
1:01:33
Speaker 3: the energy going much more. And I'll look forward to
1:01:37
Speaker 3: you running again.
1:01:57
Speaker 5: Oh yes, I want. I want to read.
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Speaker 7: Have a purpose, and all you do is just make sure.
1:02:17
Speaker 5: That show purpose to shoe.
1:02:20
Speaker 7: Have a purpose in this hair, life, sound, your life,
1:02:24
Speaker 7: a folk straighting. I live a purposition every day so
1:02:30
Speaker 7: we can live in joging. I have a purpose and
1:02:35
Speaker 7: all you do just make show.
1:02:40
Speaker 2: Your life. That's true. Every time we walk on.
1:02:57
Speaker 7: The streets, we see all the children in crime.
1:03:02
Speaker 2: Every time we see our death. It seems like people
1:03:06
Speaker 2: are lying.
1:03:08
Speaker 7: Everywhere that we see on this earth is supposed to
1:03:12
Speaker 7: be about the girth, but it's all death.
1:03:14
Speaker 2: And now we have a world of confusion.