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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 2_ bonus EPISODE _ HOST QueenMother Dr_ ChenziRa · DA CREW Podcast

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Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome to The Crew Podcast. I am
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the visionary Queen Angela and welcome to season two. I want to thank you
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May of twenty twenty by Queen Angela. Get featured and greetings. Greetings,
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greetings everyone, Welcome yet again to another live broadcast of building a new legacy
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here with The Crew Podcast. I'm one of the newer hosts. I am
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Queen Mother, Doctor Chen Zero, and I'm hailing from Saint Croix, Virgin
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Islands, the Caribbean. South of the Caribbean. How about that. We're
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really looking forward to being able to talk about ideas, actions, thoughts,
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and of course actionable deliverables. If you don't have that hashtag is part of
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your network hashtag actionable Deliverables for us to really discuss some of the things that
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are impacting our building blocks of society, things that are impacting our community,
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things that are impacting our menfolk, our women folk, but also our families,
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our communities. And how do we build, rebuild, strengthen and heal
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a new legacy one of the things that we're going to do tonight, and
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just because of the nature of nature, my original invited guests none other than
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the illustrious young scholar, legal ease attorney, youth advocate, United Nations Fellow
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International Decade for People of African Descent Fellow, Genevieve Whitteko, hailing from right
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here in II Saint Croix, Virgin Islands, as well as a former Senator
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of the Legislature of the Virgin Islands, is unable to join me, but
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she will join in the very near future, and we're looking forward to her
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bringing some contributions more correctly life centered energy to how we begin to speak of
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building a new legacy and we spell a new A and U to really ground
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it in a new legacy. It gives us an opportunity to really speak what
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persons refer to as truth to power. It allows for us to also highlight
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some of the observances that are happening within our given community and some of the
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things that we tend to take a moment to delay how we engage and share.
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I want to do something very different tonight in regard to what I did
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last night. And it's a publication called Living Life as a Sacred Practice,
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and it's a wonderful publication. It allows the subtitle discover Yourself as a Source
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of Creation. And it's produced by none other than my sister in spirit and
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in organizational work, grounded and based in Jamaica and one of the founders of
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the Temple of Inner Peace in Jamaica. Wonderful spot to visit when you're in
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Jamaica, especially if you're in the area of Negrill. And her name is
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Sharon Paris Chambers. We call her sister Queen Sharon O'shoon Paris Chambers. But
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I wanted to just highlight a particular piece inside of her work because of all
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of the turmoil, all of the challenges, all of the stress and anxiety
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and rage and anger and all this soul vibrational energy that's affecting persons, and
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we wanted to shift that right and this particular piece is how she opens peace
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is more than an absence of war. It is an innate state of a
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conscious human being. I'm going to read that again. Peace is more than
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an absence of war. It is the innate state of a conscious human being.
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And that a equitation from Sister Queen Sharon o'shun Paris Chambers of the Temple
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of Nner Peace. But I wanted to also share because she has these quotes
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inside of her publication and then she outlines and gives food for thought and action,
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not just food for thought. So it's not just dealing with the mind,
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not just dealing with the consciousness, but it's also how do we practice
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this, how do we implement this? How do we add this to our
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day to day activities? And it reads as follows, we all long for
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peace in the world. Every day there are images on the TV screen that
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impress on the screen of our minds that this is a dangerous world. Images
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of crime, death and dying, war, report of wis and weapons stockpiling
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on the nightly news. Do not allow the excesses shared by the media daily
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to shake your composure. Allow what we know deep in the recesses of our
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soul to surface. There is an innate peace that pacifies the soul. I'm
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going to read that particular sentence more done. There is an innate peace that
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pacifies the soul. And again, like I said, I'd like to be
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able to bring some of these tidbits, these proverbial things, these chants,
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these prayers, these affirmations in ways that we can really add that to building
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a new legacy. There's an opportunity for us to really bring these things in
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a format that allows for us to shift the paradigm of how we engage,
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how we speak to one another, how we show love and respect and care
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for one another, and even if we are to speak in silence, because
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silence is another form of speech, and how do we maintain a silence that
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is healing and rectifize some of the imbalance that happens in some of our relations
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which is a reality within our community. So we're going to just take a
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moment kind of swift shivel and move around some different ideas and thoughts. Part
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of what we're going to do tonight in light of the fact that, as
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I was sharing before we started this broadcast here in II Saint Croix, Virgin
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Islands, we have had the joy and privilege of definitely being within the seat
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of the Caribbean, and with that comes weather. Sometimes the weather is really
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beautiful, sad sea sun, fun and sometimes we may get torrential rains,
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we may get floods. So we want to definitely send a shout out to
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some of our sisters and brothers that have been going through things in this area,
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in this region, because not only is it the Sahara dust coming from
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the African continent across the Atlantic sounds familiar and affecting our air quality, it
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is also shifting and making certain areas exposed to flood and so we want to
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make sure that everyone maintains safety, warmth, and that they're dry and that
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there's minimal damage. It's not a hurricane. That's a whole other conversation and
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we'll come to that when it's closer to that season. But there we do
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get some different rains that impact our region, and so for those children that
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have had to stay at home while things are being repaired and upgraded in their
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respective institutions, we want to send those positive shout outs and so that they
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do not have this continue in the course of the time here in our region
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of the Virgin Islands, and the wider Caribbean something that has been coming up
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in our discussions. And when I say our discussions, there are a number
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of organizational entities that many of us are sent tripletal to. So whether it
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is through the lens of what is happening in during African Black History Months,
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because as quiet as it's kept, we definitely like to make sure that we
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too streamline and highlight those opportunities in our community that let us give honor to
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at least the theme for African Black History Month for twenty twenty four, which
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is none other than African Americans and the arts. So this is a great
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opportunity for persons in all walks of life to feature those achievers, those contributors,
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those gifts, talents and expertise that were shared specifically by African Americans.
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And in the realm of the arts, you know, in all aspects,
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whether it's culinary arts, visual arts, performative arts, and there's even more
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visual arts, and we want all the painters, the sculptors, etc.
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And we are able to use this as a time to highlight what are those
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exhibitions, what are those curating experiences that are being shared and how is it
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going across to impact the wider communities that we serve, work, worship,
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recreate and live in. So I encourage persons to also learn a little bit
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more about the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. I'll
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say that again. I know it is a salah because I remember that,
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but I think it should be spelled out the Association for the Study of African
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American Life and History. And why do I take a moment to pause and
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speaking of a salah Because ASALAH was established in nineteen fifteen by the second African
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American to earn a PhD from hard University, none other than the Honorable doctor
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Carter G. Woodson. And I think it's important when we talk about Africa
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Black History Month or African American History Month or Black History Month, however you
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know it as it's important that not so much that February is a short month
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and this year we have leap year, so it's a little extra. But
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the fact that ASALA continues to keep the legacy of the Honorable doctor Cartegie Woodson
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alive and engaged and supported, I think that that speaks volumes in regard to
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having an association that has endured again, you know, over one hundred years
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of engagement of publications, of resource development, of of course professional development,
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and that while it's focusing on history, it is also it's crossing over into
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other disciplines. And some persons may or may not find that as something that's
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a particular interest. Some people feel that history has got to be very dry,
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but we're speaking in the twenty first century where it's very animated, it
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is very interactive, and you can touch it and feel it. It's tangible.
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For example, some of the wonderful exhibitions that are part of the Smithsonian's
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National Museum of African American History and Culture that really celebrates African life. African
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American life is at the central, yes, and that corresponds to the entire
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African experience around the globe. And they have done that and continue to do
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that with the multiplicity of exhibitions and corridors that tell the legacy and give the
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narrative of people of African ancestry exceptionally well. And I wanted to highlight that.
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I think too that this is an opportunity and I encourage persons, you
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know, I have put that inside of the chat just so the persons are
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comfortable with some of the things that we may want to look at. You
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know, I tell people Asalah and you can pretty you can easily go to
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a s A l H again, a s A l H dot org,
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just so that you can add to your resources, your knowledge base, your
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wise counsel engagements. When we're talking about African American History Month, and it
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gives people an opportunity to not only look at it from an academic space,
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but to look at it in a very pragmatic, practical, communitarian space.
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So the persons are really able to move that forward. I want to give
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a special shout out to the authors that are joining me. I'm very grateful
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for your support and your presence. It means a lot for me because you
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all have set a standard that I'm really doing my best to just be a
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a participant of. It's really wonderful to have sisters that really come forward and
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show that level of support and engagement. I always give a special shout out
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to Sister Queen Angela just because she saw something that I may not have been
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able to have an opportunity to share, and so for that I am very
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grateful as well. So we're gonna take a moment. We're gonna you know,
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I like bringing up music and shifting because it's not just going to be
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just talk. But I'd like to make sure that we have an opportunity to
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really share some of the ideas, thoughts, and concepts that impact each and
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every one of us. I like the particular selection that I was we were
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listening to primarily because in Sync is an instrumental by one of our artists right
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here, a phenomenal professor, composer, arranger of course, a professional musician
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and as an educator of music, Brother Cadijo really shares a lot of his
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skill, talent, and expertise. So we'll just listen to some pretty more
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arts and I'm very grateful to be able to share that while I'm even speaking,
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because we need to do what we call again this feeling come again one
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more time. I'm really grateful to be able to share rather Cadido's music because
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one is original, and two it gives us an opportunity to really see exactly
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how we participate in the process of sharing methods, traditions, cultural heritage,
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strategies, artistic talent and fuse it together. So it's interdisciplinary and purposeful.
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A lot of times when we're speaking of building a new legacy, person's immediately
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immediately take it into like a very political and some things are political or very
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economic. Most things are economic. But we also get an opportunity to highlight
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the skills, talents and the next batise that all of us share. And
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that's something that expands so that when we speak of things like African American History
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Month, which we know African American History is three hundred and sixty five this
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year, three hundred and sixty six days, twenty four to seven. Every
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square net smaller than a second, and so we incorporate that, and with
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doing that, it is always inclusive, and it is still very clear of
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how we begin to share in our conversations, in our engagements, in some
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of our motivations, as well as some of the activities that we like to
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do and those that we may not like to do but that are good for
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us. Right, So that lets me go to another point. And I
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like using different publications from some of my colleagues, and I also like using
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publications that are relatively fresh and relatively new, primarily because I think that it's
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really critical when we talk about what are we observing during the month of February,
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and what are some of the observances I always take persons too, have
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you ever done a very quick search of like what are some of the international
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days that the agencies, like the United Nation highlights. I'm just curious the
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persons ever think about these international days that are hosted by the UN. And
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the reason I ask has a lot to do with sometimes we overlook that there
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are a number of observances. For it seems like every day there's holiday.
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Every day there's something that we can celebrate. True, we rise, we
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give thanks for life. And I'm saying that in addition to that, during
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the month of February, we have a number of different observances that take place.
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You know, there's been a lot of buzz around the forthcoming One Love
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film, you know, as a featuring the life or a particular thread of
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the life of Robert Bob Nester Marley, right, And there's a whole lot
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of buzz around that. The fact that they're doing this premiere, at least
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to the rest of the world on February fourteenth, which is Valentine's Today,
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is observed in the US, at least in the forty eight contiguous to us
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primarily, and that February sixth mark this year was the anniversary of his seventy
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ninth year Hattie still been alive, right, And I think that that brings
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a whole lot of conversation and a lot of discussion around the power of reggae
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him being viewed as a prophet in the eyes of many using music that most
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of us know. Almost everyone knows at least two Bob Marley songs really well,
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where we can listen and act like we're doing karaoke and do all the
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bobbing and thinking that we're definitely skanking and doing a little sky all the time.
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And this is like anywhere in the world where persons do not even speak
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English, that we've been able to see the power of this artist. So
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again, that's something that opens up in the beginning of Pebruary. There are
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a number of other observances, just like International Mother Language Day. Who would
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have known that the United Nations has an actual designation of February twenty first as
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International Mother Language Day. Like little things like that, I think it's important.
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There's the World Day of Social Justice, which is the twentieth of February
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and again not my observances. These are observances that have been brought forth.
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If you go to the United Nations website, and you can easily just go
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to un dot org and then put in international Days and it will give you
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a plethora of the different observances that are formalized by the United Nations, UNESCO
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and some of their other respective agencies. I think that these are the types
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of things, and there's some that are more specific and quite long, so
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I will spare you some of that, but I think it's important, like
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some persons overlook d like the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
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That's important because we have a lot of activities that are happening geared around science,
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technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. But we also have seen it
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shift from science, technology, engineering and math and they've added which was STEM,
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and then they added the A steam and then they've added reading, so
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that makes it extreme. So we've validated, right, and I think it's
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really important for persons to remember that February eleventh is designated as a day,
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an International Day of Women and Girls in Science, so it allows for the
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achievements, the opportunities, some of the wonderful research and projects and inventions and
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innovations that women and girls have contributed to the sciences. I think that's a
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wonderful observance that sometimes we overlook. And it's not to say that it's intentional,
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but it's just because sometimes we simply do not know, and that gives
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us another opportunity to speak truth to power. As one of our baba's,
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Senora Bayer of the u n I aac l RC twenty twenty, who is
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the first Assistant President General, always highlights like he has made that a mantra
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amongst many of us in a very powerful way, speaking truth to power.
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And I'm sure there's others that have said it, but I'm just going by
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the elder that says it quite frequently around us. Also on the thirteenth,
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and it's very powerful that while we're doing this podcast and sharing this type of
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information, that there's also an observance on February thirteenth, which is World Radio
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Day. So wherever you are in the world, that is an excellent day
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and a wonderful opportunity to speak on radio, share radio links, share podcasts,
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deal with recordings, and bring that type of information so that everyone,
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whatever your voice is whatever you'd like to share, let us just spread that
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around the globe. You know, this is a great time to shift transform
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these paradigms, these common experiences where persons are really in that space, as
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our sister said, where we were overlooking the power of peace and the power
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of how innate peace is into our consciousness as human beings. So this gives
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us another opportunity to give a message, give a shout out, give us
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sharing something that's a bliss thing that really keeps people together and moving in a
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very strong form. It is also a number of other opportunities for persons to
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really start to prepare and I tell persons, you know, February is like
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our anchoring. You know, people are recovering from all the holidays in January.
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There's a lot of things that happen in January as well that lead out
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of the day where we are doing a lot of community service honoring the honorable
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doctor Martin Luther King Junior. It was wonderful to actually celebrate his birth day,
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what we refer to as this Earth Strong, on the actual day.
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So it was wonderful to have the celebrations and observances on the actual day.
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Usually we have to pick a Monday that's usually before or after And I think
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it's really wonderful that this year there were a lot of different activities and themes
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that took place has supported his vision of not only civil rights, human rights
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as well, and not only civil disobedience, but balance and justice. Those
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are the things that really stuck out in terms of many of the activities.
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Some of the presentations that were highlighted some of the youth that were doing re
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enactments of becoming lack leader, similar to the leadership that was provided by the
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Honorable Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. And then I thought it was interesting that
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around this time there was also this reminder of the diversity yet the commonality of
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the work of the Honorable Doctor Martin Luther King as well as the honorable El
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Hajj Malik L. Shabaz that we have come to know is Malcolm X.
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I think it was really powerful. There have been films that are highlighting that.
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There have been plays that have been spreading around the community, like Wildfire
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right here in the Virgin Islands here on Saint Croix. Our Caribbean Community Theater
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did a production around the same time of a hypothetical conversation a meeting between the
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meeting between Martin, the honorable doctor Martin Luther King Jr. And the Honorable
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Malcolm X. It was a very very telling play, right, And I
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thought that was really powerful to see that juxtaposed with these this mini series that
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was made available on television around the same type of conversation, but making it
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more real and showing their life and connecting it to things that really transpired in
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the childhood spaces of both of these great men as well as what transpired and
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led to them actually meeting, you know, even though the impression was given
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that they did not have many opportunities to speak and work together, which in
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fact those that know know differently, right. And it's just very very telling
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how we bring these conversations into honoring and celebrating African American History Month. So
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with that, I think that's appropriate time for us to again bring up some
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of the word sound power. And I'm very cautious because I know that the
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music that I'm playing, I make sure that I have the permission of the
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artists and or it's music that I've created, and I think that that's what
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makes part of what we're doing in this wonderful platform, so engagingly positive,
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so engagingly supportive, because it gives us an opportunity to do a variety of
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things. For example, there was a film that was done by the American
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Legacy Network that link I'm really encouraging persons to also look forward to. If
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you just go to vimeo vimeo dot com and then you put in the chat
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Whirldwind the Marcus Garvey Story, you will have a seven minute, seven minute,
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fourteen second treasure on the life legacy contributions of the Honorable Marcus Messiah Garvey.
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I'll say it again, produced by African American Legacy Network. In twenty
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twenty two, there's a short film that's available pree on Vimeo called The Whirlwind
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the Marcus Garvey Story. And I think that that is something that I will
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not play it here. I think it's best for persons to just go into
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that platform and take some time and share it with your family and friends.
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For persons that have no idea of you know, people are very quick to
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say I remember Marcus Garvey. Marcus Garvey had the Universal Negro Improvement Association,
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African Communities League, all they gathered more than twenty five thousand delegates representing millions
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of African people around the world in nineteen twenty without internet, without social media,
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without cell phones, and they worked together and they establish industry and economic
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drivers, and educational support systems and healthcare. You know, the Black Cross
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nurses were parallel to none and that needs to be brought out into some of
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our conversations, some of our discussions, So I will make sure that I
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put that link on in our networks as well for persons that may not be
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as familiar as they should be. I'll leave that there for now, and
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that lets us go into some of our next selections that let us speak about
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how much we actually love our African continent, how much we actually appreciate the
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experience of the greatness of Africa. We're not going to focus on that which
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is negative. We're going to focus on that which is positive. So enjoy
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the selection. Ah, we love you. Now. We understand how they're
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forced shop any tool that then they lit cars of their history book. But
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we know the truth. How we've searched on lope to lift our minds on
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for Europe's some stand on understand how much strength and will power it to get
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from and uh there's spelled and propag and I know them one how we sproud
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and be that she is and we book ba. We let them know we
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were our fun But we found our mother Wen re united with our last sisters
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and brother African stretchansport their hands to her. Probably their sons and daughter gat
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her across the water in this great disaster with him that was authored by the
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thirty Rottens thinking. I won't say the world, but they tried to kill
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every last semblance of African spirit hand skin. But destiny must unful prophecy must
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fulfilled emancipationism in its stephin, and to get to the top of it is
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a jodrein Yah. That's why from Cape Town to Cairo can't bring us to
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Brazil, no matter where we were. We are africanstant and we will he
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hear those emotionless scars, and we will reclaim everything that's ours, and we
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will retake our class amongst the stars, and we will redeem our ancest dollar
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a f RecA. We love you, Betterday must come. We see ras
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sunshining through the storm. Clothes are moving from above you, and glorious things
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again will be spoken of you like really love humanity, birthplace of civilization,
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bringing us some sanity to these crazy modern nations. Sankofa is the only way
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out of this present situations. Looking backward to go forward to our future destination.
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Our relation to our history must be more than information. Emancipation is a
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feeling. It's an overwhelming emotions inspiring debortion and the commitment to undo the brainwashing
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and programming that they put us through. Africa is in, but we must
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experience new Africans, be persist and throe to their own culture be true.
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Let our common experience keep us together like blue with that ancient our a friakon
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science with them Paru boom too oo boom. To excuse me if I get
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a little hight, But I'm the parias that they try to wipe out of
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all historical site. And now my stories come to light, and all those
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wrongs I want to write with songs of redemption and words to fight the oppression
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that got with grips are tight. But this song, it is nothing freshion
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on you. The prophet is already said to you. Africans, unite as
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we're moving right out of Babilah and we're moving to our others even if you've
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never been to the continent, the connection is evident. Your retentions are a
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test event the time that couldn't be brought. And even if you come from
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far, you got to remember who you are. The shattered fragments of our
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souls let us recollect and never again should we forget that we are king and
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we are push I don't you Land, I don't can it. We are
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your Huba, we are Hooser, we are evil and mandingoed. We are
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ful Handi and the shanty w sere run for a anti we are gone.
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We are found. If they open twice and think we are who you and
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Zulu Mada Massaian man to Africa, we are you Africa. We love you,
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bars or lah to say it in on Africa, people indulge me.
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I want to say it to chese Wahili na who can nah a free god
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Africa. I love y'all. I share that from the poet Laureate like no
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other out of the Republic of Barbados, Adrian Green. And that's from his
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collection that everyone should keep close just in regard to that particular piece Africa,
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we love you, and it's from his collection art is Chemistry and that's Africa
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spoken word right, coming right out of the Republic of Barbados, which is
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one of the newest republics here in the Caribbean region. I share that so
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that persons and last time I think I had a chance to just do a
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portion, but it's important to hear the entire piece because it allows for us
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to show connections in regards to not only African history, but ancestral ancient African
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legacy. I'm going to say that clear ancestral ancient African legacy. It's very
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challenging when persons if you're not familiar, if you don't know, and many
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times we might read all the books we desire, but you know, when
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you hear that song, when you hear that poetic verse, persons have listened,
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whether it's to Audrey Lord, whether it's to doctor Gloria I. Joseph,
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whether it's to the words of Marcus Messiah Garvey, Amy Jacks Garvey,
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Amy ASHWC. Garvey, whether it's the words that we hear from doctor Maya,
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Angelou, Alice Walker. There's Tony Marson, There's so many lyricists,
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literary scholars, activists. The list is long. You know, there's words
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from the Honorable Reverend doctor Edward Willman Blyden. Most persons may not even remember
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some of the works that come from Caseley Hairport or doctor Kwamee and Kruma are
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doctor Walter Rodney, persons that said it with a little more fire. And
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we're centripetal to forming new forms of governance. You know, when we speak
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of things like pan Africanism, persons see, you know, some people get
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a little shaky when you start to talk about the term Africa. And it's
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really a great opportunity for us to show love and show respect for our great
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great great great great great great great great great grandparents, how about that,
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you know, and to envelope that legacy and to pull on what were the
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positives, not only the challenges, and not just that one thread in the
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continuum of time, that one thread of colonization, enslavement and the horrors that
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persons will use the term my apha and in Swahili my afa is like a
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hurricane, like a natural disaster. And over the course of time, many
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of us have come to see the ma apa that transpired in the experience of
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persons of African ancestry. In that frame, the more enveloping term is my
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onngameasy. I'm going to say it again, my angameasy, which is an
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intentional, institutionalized form of genocide and terrorism against people very different, right,
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So it's important that when we're using even these terms, that we start to
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envelope and share these different techniques, so we would understand why in the twenty
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first century, why in two thousand and twenty four, we're still in a
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quest for our self determination in many places, not all, but in many
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places, while we're still in a quest for the upliftment of our relations with
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one another. Why there's so much war in friction, Why drive bys have
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come to be associated into the African American African go Opal communities that it's normalized,
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Why there's this relational shift, Why there's a lack of loyalty and integrity
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and trust within our communities. And so that takes me right into fist Quine
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Sharon O'shoe's publication Living Life is the Sacred Practice, and she says in her
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work, I am light and I am Love, and I'm just saying I
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just turned to that page. I didn't pick this one intentionally. I'm going
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by what spirit guides me. With this time. But I am light and
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I am love. When I flip again, I live my dream and sometimes
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my dream lives me again. I live my dream and sometimes my dream lives
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me. And what I am grateful for. And I want to read this
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section that the description that comes with that in a context of what we're saying,
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I am a dreamer who constantly dreams. The dream of life mocks my
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reality and pushes me further in search of my awakening power. So that we
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are able to not only speak of our skills, talents and expertise, not
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only go and stay stuck in the thread in the timeline that was very challenging
45:30
for people of African ancestry, but to speak of our resilience, to speak
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of our strength, to speak of our ability to be unified and liberated and
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have forms of sovereign social governance wherever we are. That restoration of power,
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that restoration of authority, that restoration of that spiritually grounded, blessed form of
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ascension that keeps the Creator by all the names that we use, because that
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is another broadcast and of itself, we could just go through all the names
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that we speak of the Creator as the Almighty, as Jehovah as yahweh is
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Olu du Martin as Neta. And we can keep moving and going and saying
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a variety of names. For some they just say God right when we're speaking
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of Jesus or the illuminated Christ in one we can speak of that and with
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the form of power and passion and love and engagement. Some say Jesus,
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some say Heesus, some say helu eluhen Elois. I'm just saying there's so
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many elements that come with how we speak of bringing air. Those elements air,
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fire, earth, Walter and the fusion is spirit. So it is
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a few, but it's air, fire, earth, water and spirit brought
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together so that we can actually bring this vibration of living life as a sacred
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practice, discovery yourself as a source of creation. And I encourage persons if
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you have not had a chance to secure your version of living life as a
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sacred practice by Sister Queen Sharon O'shoon Parish Chambers, you can just look for
47:31
the Temple of Inner Peace on any of the media network social media networks and
47:37
you will be able to secure that. And I'll make sure that for our
47:40
upcoming broadcast hopefully she will have the time. She's an ambassador of tourism,
47:47
she's a Minister of Tourism. Excuse me, but she also does ambassadorial work
47:52
out of Jamaica, and that's the only reason that she hasn't joined us yet.
47:54
But we are looking forward to her making time in her schedule to be
47:59
able to join us as well. Alongside with her beloved husband brother I referred
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to him as Baba Theo Chambers and together with the Temple of Inner Peace,
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that has been part of what I wanted to highlight this evening is to look
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at the ways in which we restore peace in our community. And when I'm
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saying peace, not a piece of but the actual tranquility, the balance,
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the harmony in the midst of all of the chaos that's surrounding us. This
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is an excellent opportunity for us to bring truth to power. Whether you're celebrating,
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observing, commemorating African Black History Month, if it's going to be a
48:47
time where you just feel like honoring the birth anniversary of Frederick Douglas, the
48:55
birth anniversary of doctor W. E. B. D. Voice, there's
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so many observances. There's a number of things that we get to celebrate.
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I know I have a celebration our twins. We have a paternal twins adults
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now they celebrate on the eighteenth, So it's like a new batan, a
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numa a day. You just stop everything on the eighteenth for the last this
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year mark thirty years. And we're very honored to be able to have young
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people that are engaged. You know, our guest that was planning to join
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us and will join us in March is As I mentioned earlier, Genevieve Wittekar
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Comma, j D Comma, CPM. I mean there's a number of letters
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to her background, but as a former legislator of the Virgin Islands Legislative Body,
49:49
in addition to her being a trained international attorney, it's powerful to see
49:53
the type of work that she's done with starting the Virgin Islands Youth Advocacy Coalition
50:00
and keeping that organization going from when she was a youth to now that she's
50:04
moving into the next layer of her adulthood and being able to pass the baton
50:09
to other young people that are doing this layer of work research, advocacy,
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activism and much much more. I want to close tonight with a couple of
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just reminders. I've mentioned some platforms in regard to looking at a Salah,
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and as I mentioned earlier, I think it's important that persons go to the
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source, you know, when we're looking at what is being observed for African
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Black History Month. You know, ASALA allows for you to see certain things.
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You can also look for the various and that's a S A l H
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dot org and there you can go to that site and expand some other areas
50:51
and arenas. You also have an opportunity to go to vimeo dot com and
50:58
look for The Whirlwind the Marcus Garvey Story. And again it's a seven minute,
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fourteen second professionally produced film by the African American See Network. I think
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it's impressive. I wanted to send a special shout out to brother SATAURREI for
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just making that film possible and available. And plus it is actually endorsed by
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none other than the surviving son of the honorable Marcus Messiah Garvey, the honorable
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doctor Julius Garvey. I think it's a really wonderful opportunity for persons to learn
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a little bit more. We're going to between now and the next time that
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I get to see you here in this network. We will already have our
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Virgin Islands Agriculture Fair, which is one of the largest agriculture fairs in this
51:46
region and here on Saint Croix, and that will be during what in the
51:52
US is referred to as President's Weekend, from the sixteenth of February to the
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nineteenth. And there's also going to be a Virgin Islands Good Food Coalition.
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This is their inaugural conference, and you know, I really want to send
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a special shout out to Summer Sibilly Brown for her leadership and organizing that as
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well. And that will be from the nineteenth to the twenty first, so
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the last day of our agfair until the twenty first of February. And as
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I mentioned, there's so many other things that are happening. Please keep in
52:23
touch. You can easily go to my platforms. You can look for Chen
52:28
Zero Kahina as pretty much so the only Chin Zero Kahina and you'll see my
52:32
face and some of the platforms. And I'll keep encouraging persons stay in touch
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with us, because remember that culture heals humanity. Land is our foundation and
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spiritual harmony unifies us. We're looking forward to you sharing with us your idea
52:47
is about how best for us to continue to build a new legacy. So
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let's keep building a new legacy together in the best manner and the best way
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possible. We'll close out with a little bit of music that gives us an
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opportunity to just talk about Nubie and people, since we've been talking about our
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consciousness, our culture and much much more. And this is by Sister Queen
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Reverend IV Hilton should die and rather plunky and once again then a shout out
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the Crow Podcast the Sun. Don't forget to join us Mark seven, first
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and third Thursday to M you can Yeah,