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Buck Breaking.....A threat to the Black man's masculinity · Black Girl Interrupted Podcast

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Black Girl Interrupted. Y'all already know how started. Y'all already know how you
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started? Uh, what's up y'all? Hey, welcome back to another episode
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of Black Girl Interrupted. Y'all know it. Sugar Ash bringing y'all another episode
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of Black Girl Interrupted and Happy Tuesday to everybody. Let me first start off
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by saying that. Let me start by asking, how was it's the weekend?
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How did you guys weekend go? How are y'all feeling today? What's
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what's good? Like? We made it through the weekend. Here we are,
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We're halfway through the work week. Tomorrow is hump day. Oh and
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I cannot wait. That puts me one day closer to the weekend. But
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I hope everyone is having a good evening. I hope everyone has had a
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great weekend. I hope your day was good. I hope whatever you got
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going on in your life, I hope it's going better for you. Like
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man like, I'm so excited to be back in front of this camera doing
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another episode of Black Girl Interrupted. I told y'all that I was gonna stay
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consistent. I told y'all that I was gonna be in my bag for twenty
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twenty four and baby I let me, let me look, let me pat
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myself on the back, because I'm so proud of myself because I've been sticking
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with it, because this is something like I really really really enjoy doing,
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and not just because it's black his three months, but because this is I
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don't know, I feel free whenever I'm in my speech, when I'm in
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my element, like you can't take me out of that. So cain't nothing
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stop my shine. But anyway, but again, y'all, welcome back to
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another episode of Black Girl Interrupted. Of course, you know it's your girl,
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Ash, And I'm good happy. I'm good today, I'm better today,
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and every day is gonna keep getting better for me. So on that
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note, y'all already know what I do before I get started. I always
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do a mental health check in. And I do that simply because mental health
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means a lot to me. You know, it doesn't matter what I'm doing,
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what I have going on, it's imperative that I check in with each
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and every individual to make sure you're your well being is good, your mental
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is good. Some of us are still recovering from you know, COVID.
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Uh. Some people are just getting caught up on bills you know things like
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that that have happened some people just things just haven't been going right in life,
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but you still keep persevering, and I'm proud of you for that.
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I hope that every story that I have shared and continue to share is some
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type of encouragement to somebody that I hope that encourages in and empowers someone to
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keep going. I hope that's everything that I say, everything that I do.
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I hope it's uplifting to somebody For many people that regardless of where you
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are in life, it's not where you start is how you finish. It
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doesn't matter how old you are, how young you are, male, female,
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black, purple, yellow, green, orange, whatever, Still keep
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going, never give up. I know it's easier said than done, but
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if at any given point that you feel like you just can't handle it anymore,
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please seek seek out health, Please see medical advice, something, because
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I would rather you be here to talk than for me to be speaking at
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your funeral. So this is why I do these mental health check ins at
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the start of every episode, just to let people know that despite everything that
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I've gone through and the things that I continue to go through, I still
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get up in that short for me, I still get up and I show
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up for my children. I show up for the people that mean the most
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to me, but most importantly, as I said, I show up for
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me. So I say all of that to say, keep going. I
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know, once you fall down, you want to stay down because it's easier,
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it's comfortable. But get up. There are people that out here that
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are really truly rooting for you, that really truly want to see you win.
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Forget what the haters and the naystairs have to say. You get up
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and you keep going. So y'all already know what I do. I always
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play something motivational, inspirational. But here we go, and then we're gonna
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into the nice conversation. Success can be a lonely road. It can be
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a tough road. It can be a hard road. It's not for everyone.
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Those who follow others like sheep will never know who they truly are.
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Only those who follow their own pad can discover their true potential. Those who
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fly along have the strongest wings, Those who walk along have the strongest direction.
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The rest will always be in need of others for their survival. They
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will always need attention, need recognition to survive. I am at peace alone,
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needing no attention, no recognition, and still I thrive. I'm not
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saying those who have support are weak. I'm not saying you must go at
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it alone to gain stress. This is just for those who have fought battles
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along, those who have felt like they don't fit in, those who have
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never had support in anything they do. All of those who feel no one
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believes in them. You don't need them to believe in you. If you
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believe in you, you don't need their support. If you've got your own
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back. The best part is when you truly live the life you want to
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live. When you speak your truth, when you embrace who you are,
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then you gain real respect and real love. People love those who have the
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guts to be themselves, those who have the courage to follow their heart.
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Why it's rare, Why because most people wish they could do the same.
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Show them the way, keep going, believe in your It will all come
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good and yet, and when it does, you won't have only inspired yourself
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to be more, you will have inspired so many others. I had to
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learn to fight alone, and because of that, I am strong alone.
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I am strong full stop. I developed inner strength that can't be broken.
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I am unbreakable because of the pain. I am strong because of the struggle.
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I have character most will never know. I appreciate others more than ever.
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I have more compassion than ever. I had to go deep into the
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darkness. Now I have more depth. Now I can see clearer. I
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had to face huge internal challenges. Now I can defeat any challenge. I
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will destroy everych ouch. I am proud who I have become. I am
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proud I have overcome. I am proud I kept going. I am proud
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of who I am, who I have become. I am proud I stay
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true to myself because now I can live as myself with respect from others and
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most importantly, pride and respect from myself. All Right, y'all, I
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thought that video was so fitting for today because again, like I said,
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I've learned to push through after being in the dark for so long to where
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I enjoy being in the light. I love it, I enjoy it.
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I've embraced it. So I passed that beautiful message on to others that are
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sitting in the dark that it doesn't matter again where you start, it's always
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how you finish, So don't let anyone discourage you and what is you're trying
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to do. Don't let anyone take your dreams and goals, your aspirations away
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from you, because those are yours. They belong to you, and no
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one can take that away from you. But you so keep showing up for
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yourself regardless if no one comes, no one loves, no one supports.
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Somebody's watching you, somebody's rooting for you, and they're wanting you to win.
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So that note, I'm still doing my mental health check in. But
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I love you, guys. I appreciate all the love and all the genuine
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support that I get each and every episode. It's it's like, you know,
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it gets bigger. So I'm really, really, really truly excited about
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the moves that Black Girl Interrupted is making. And I can't wait to see
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where I'm at next year. So maybe we'll be on TV. Who knows,
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we'll see. But shout out to my sister Julie. I love you,
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baby, Thank you so much for tuning in. Let me tell you
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something. My sister sent me a care package, okay from Atlanta right with
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some books and I'm gonna talk about the books on Thursday. But she sent
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me some books. She sent me some stickers. She sent me two bookmarks
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and some old goodies, but she also sent me three packs of probably is
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okay, so I hate that. I'm gonna put it on the spot,
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but I've eaten all three packs of the Problens. The packs look like this,
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and this is the last pack. This is all that slept is crumps.
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Okay, this is all that slept is crumps. Don't judge me anyway,
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but y'all tell my sister, like, send me some more, like
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I really need some more. But AnyWho, on a positive note, again,
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we're still doing a mental health check in again, y'all, welcome back
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to another episode of Black Girl interrupted, and she says, shaking her damn
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head, I know i'msad dot com, but it's okay. I promise you
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I need some more. I promise you please send me some more. Thanks,
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no pressure, okay, but you can send me some. I appreciate.
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Its good for my health. So anyway, so tonight's conversation, we
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are really truly, really truly getting into our black history. And tonight we
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are talking about Oh, I know it's gonna be sensitive, y'all, but
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tonight we are still celebrating black history. But again I told y'all we were
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gonna have conversations about topics that they didn't teach us in school. So tonight
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we are talking about buck breaking, breaking down the black Man. HM.
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So I thought long and hard before I even decided the topics for this month.
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And so I'm familiar with this story and how it came to be and
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how they still say it still plays a factor in today's society. So I
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kind of pondered and said, is this really a topic that I really want
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to address? Is this something that might be too insensitive? Is this something
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that may trigger some people? Is this a conversation that people are going to
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really listen to? And I said, you know what, what the hell,
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I'm gonna do it anyway. So buck breaking For those that do not
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know what what buck breaking is, I know you have what is buck breaking?
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So what And and let me say this trigger warning, trigger warning,
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trigger warning. This is a very sensitive topic. Some of the some of
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the things that are discussed maybe triggering. So trigger warning. If you do
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find any of this content a little triggering, maybe sensitive, It's cool if
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you you don't tune in tonight. I completely understand that, are completely respected,
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But this again is a part of our black history. Again, this
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was nothing that was taught in school. So hmm, let me take a
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deep breath. Look, I got my water right here too. So buck
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breaking what is it? So? What buck breaking is? It's the alleged
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act of publicly punishing a male slave, typically by first flogging him and subsequently
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sexually assaulting or raping him in front of other slaves in order to humiliate him.
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This was done in front of their wives, This was done in front
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of their children. And this was done This was a form of punishment for
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the male slaves that went against the master. This was a way to break
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him down. This was a way to emasculate the black man. Let me
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take a deep breath on this before we continue on, because there's also a
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movie. Shout out to Tarknasid who actually did a movie called buck Breaking where
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he goes a little more in depth about buck breaking. I watched it and
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let's just say it was despicable with the way that black men were treated.
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Then if it's it's not a remen of how black men are being treated in
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today's society. So we're going to jump on into the history of buck breaking.
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How did it start, Where did it start? How did it come
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to be? Here we go During the period of North American slavery, but
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breaking was the act of which a slave owner would sexually sodomize and brutalize the
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black slaves publicly in front of the other slaves. The process would begin where
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the slave owner or overseer would identify the most defiant male slave or who they
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believe was the strongest or the leader amongst the slaves. The overseer would then
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gather all the slaves into one area where they would then tie the strongest male
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slave to a tree, remove his trousers, having his buttocks completely exposed,
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then would proceed to rape him. After raping the male slave, they would
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then savagely sodomize him. It wouldn't stop there. The overseer would then whip
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him over and over again, right in front of all the other slaves and
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also in front of the male slave's wife, family, friends, and children.
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This process would often end in death. Buck breaking was more than just
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a punishment. It was used to control, psychologically, break, emasculate,
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and break the inner spirit of male slaves on the plantation. It was a
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message to all slaves to show improve who had the true power, dominance,
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and supremacy. Buck breaking comes from the term black buck and breaking a buck,
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which refers to violently abusing the black man to get him to follow orders.
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It began on slave ships where enslave African men were sexually exploited by the
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slave merchants and eventually on plantations by their slave owners. Enslave Africans mostly originated
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from West Africa from many different tribes, including the Yoruba, Igbo and Dinka,
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Congo and am Bibio. They were brought to the Caribbean as an abundant
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and cheap source of labor for sugar plantation. Through excruciating and terrifying experiences on
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the ship, many of the enslaved Africans died before reaching land. For the
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many who survived, they represent the beginning of the generational anguish and trauma,
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with a constant reminder that in their new lives it will be treated as commodity
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by their owners. There were many historically recorded slave rebellions, to be exact
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evidence of more than two hundred and fifty uprising involving ten or more slaves whose
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aim was for personal freedom. Four of the most notably are the Stony Rebellion
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of September ninth, seventeen thirty nine, the New York City Rebellion in seventeen
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forty one, the German Coast Uprising in eighteen eleven, and then Nat Turner's
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Rebellion on August twenty second, eighteen thirty one. Buck breaking became more prevalent
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when African slave rebellions had increased because of the slave owner's approach on breaking down
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their slaves by using the form of sexual abuse. It became popular on plantations
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and it grew into sex farms, which was also a part of slave breeding.
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To systematically force the reproduction of enslaved people to increase safe owners' profits,
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enslave men were also castrated or sexually mutilated as of punishment. This act of
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buck breaking eventually spared no male and affected both children and men. Due to
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the dehumanizing impact, most slaves, after being raped, committed suicide. While
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slavery has been around for almost since the beginning of civilization, the year sixteen
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nineteen marks a significant period with the largest amount of captive Africans set foot in
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North America through the British colony port of Jamestown, Virginia, This would be
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regarded as the start of the African slavery in the colonial history of the United
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States. It is well documented that the Dutch ship known as the White Lion
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brought at least twenty Africans, and they were classified as indentured servants. The
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English settlers at this time also enslaved the indigenous people. Historical documents indicate around
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this period of the sixteen twenty, over fifty people were enslaved, many of
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which were prisoners of war exported from Angola, southern Africa. Enslave women and
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their young child were also subject to sexual abuse and often bearing children for their
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slave owner. The slave owner would also forcibly pair good breeders to produce strong
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children they could sell at a high price. Resistance brought severe punishment and often
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death. Throughout the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. During the slave trade, which
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lasted well over four hundred years, millions were kidnapped from the continent of Africa.
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Africans were captured on their land, brutalized, chained down, forced onto
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ships, and taken into new lands across the world against their will. Consequently
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forced into slavery in the American colonies and exploited to work in the production of
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crops such as tobacco and cotton. According to the historical records, over twelve
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million Africans were forcibly brought to work on various plantation throughout the world. Portugal
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and Britain together accounted for seventy five percent of the slave trade, that's over
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nine million slaves. The eighteen sixty Consensus reported that African American population of the
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United States was estimated to be over four point four million, of which three
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point million were enslaved. This means at least eighty nine percent of African American
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lived in slavery. It was on January first, eighteen sixty three, President
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Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which on paper, made the end of
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slavery in the United States. Thirty years before US President Abraham Lincoln wrote the
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Emancipation Proclamation, the Canadian Slavery Abolition Act of eighteen thirty three came into effect
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across the British Empire. It took Britain to finally outlaw the practice across their
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entire empire in eighteen thirty four. Present day, to the people from marginalized
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communities, specifically African descent and the indigenous people. While slavery ended over one
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hundred and sixty years ago, there still forms a slave master to slave behaviors
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within our societies, which comes without the physical chains, but yet it comes
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in the form of psychological buck breaking to masculate individuals publicly. If you look
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closely, it comes directly from people in powerful positions the government, law enforcers,
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teachers, employers, and the list goes on. It is also often
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observed in the entertainment industry such as sports, music and films. I'm encouraged
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to share the following lyrics from Sisla Clanci's Rise to the Occasion song to remind
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you of who you truly are here. It is rise to the Occasion.
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Look at yourself. They say you are strong. No one can stop you.
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It's for you to make the best in life. Know that you got
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the chance. Get up and step towards your goal. It's all right.
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Fulfill your needs and wants. It's on you to make the best in life.
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Know that you got the chance. Perseverance for the utmost best should be
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your preference. Skills of trade in talents is your evidence help those who are
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far off teach those in your residence. Life is so real, no time
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for disillusion. Just like mom would say, love is a solution until next
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time. Peace, King, Peace, Queen. Oh m, Let me
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just take a deep breath real quick, because that's a lot to take it
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to know that publicly emasculating a man as a form of punishment was celebrated during
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those times. I mean they made this a real, live, public celebration
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where they would wield a man out, the slave and would have him stretched
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out, bent over and publicly brutalized. Sexual Again, that's not what they
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teach you in textbooks. This is a part of history that they want us
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to forget. But it's still going on in present day. We see it
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in prisons, we see it, like you said, music, government teachers
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sad. It's almost like I have no words because we're still seeing this in
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present day. So going back to the history of buck breaking, I knew
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this was gonna be a difficult topic for me, but I'm gonna push through
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anyway. I knew it was gonna be difficult because it saddens me to know
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that our black men were and still are being emasculated at the cost of their
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expense. The fact that although during those times social media wasn't a big thing,
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well social media didn't even exist during those times. But it's almost like
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what people do for likes and views. They love to humiliate and they masculate
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our black men for likesin views exactly how they did the slaves. The whole
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town would come out and you have this black man, the most defiant slave,
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as they say, and they wanted to figure out a way to break
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him down. So they say, we're gonna do this for public display.
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We're gonna publicly do this the same way some of y'all post things on social
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media for lights and views that humiliate people. But we're gonna go We're gonna
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go into that. I just it saddens me, and I'm so sorry that
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I'm choked up and I'm at a loss for words, because y'all know I'm
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never at a loss for well, I won't say all the time, but
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I'm really at a loss of words right now, because again I pondered y'all
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whether or not to do this topic to have a show about this, but
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I said, to hell, I'm gonna do it anyway. And not only
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did they humiliate our black men, but they humiliated our black women seem like
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they do now. So do I feel like buck breaking is non existence?
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Absolutely not, because we see it every day. We see it on social
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media, We see it in our faces. We see our black men publicly
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emasculated by their wives, girlfriends, moms, sisters, cousins. And then
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we also see this in the prisons. We also see this by law enforcement.
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The government does it, hell, the community does it. I was
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watching a video and they briefly touched on like us sure, and what's the
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little nas ects? They and they talked about Kanye and they said, you
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know, this is another way of buck breaking. This is the way they
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break down the black man. Put him in a dress, Tyler Perry,
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keaven Hart. The list goes on and on a black men that allow the
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industry to emasculate them for lights and views. So buck breaking has not ended.
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It's still going on in present day. So Jewel put the custom emojis,
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Hey nat, good to see you. Jewel says facts, because we
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do see the emasculation of black men all the time. And the women that
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step up and defend the black men were called pygmies. But that's a whole
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other conversation too. That's a whole other topic put in itself that I'm gonna
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get into later on. But going back and speaking on the history of buck
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breaking, our black women were violated. Again, these are pieces of our
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history that they want us to forget. And as you heard, slavery just
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ended one hundred and sixty years ago. One hundred and sixty years ago,
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that's not a long time. It's not a long time. And to know
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that it still exists in present day, it's sad to me. But again,
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the things that we allow sad, very disturbing. I came across another
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video and one of the questions was, is buck breaking the origins of gay
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identity in the black community? Do you feel like buck breaking is what led
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us to the lgbt qya plus community amongst blacks. I listened to something that
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consciously had to say, and of course, a lot of things I don't
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agree with that he says, but this particular thing that he said I really
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had to agree with. So here we're gonna run a jump back into the
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conversation. Buck breaking is the large act of publicly punishing the male slaves,
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typically by first flogging him and subsequently graping him and assaulting him in front of
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other slaves in order to humiliate him. Purpose of this video is to unpackage
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why so many people believe the history of buck breaking is the origins of homosexuality
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or same gender loving people in our community. Ating it simplistically, just like
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a man being intimately taken advantage of by another man in the prison industrial complex
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makes them a victim of assault and not gay. That's the same thing that
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applies to the history of buck breaking. Etymology of buck breaking comes from the
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concept of breaking a horse, and even in the animalistic metaphor, taking advantage
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of a horse would not make it switching sexuality again, you would just be
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assaulting a horse. It comes to recognizing the uniqueness of sexual exportation in our
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community. You gotta make sure you're not just projecting that onto individuals because they're
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gay or because they don't conform to the way that you believe their sexuality should
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conform, because that's when you start engaging then to those white supremacy raciers,
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And ain't nobody got time for that. Really, a straight man tries to
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take advantage of a stud and humiliate her and for the rest of her stud
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friends that does not change her gender. It probably adds a lot of psychological
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violence and trauma on her, but it does not change her gender. Brings
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me back to the concept of bug breaking. This is pictures of Pharaoh's.
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In today's time, we consider those skirts correct when we define their masculinity based
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off their garments and say that Babylon was taking them down because they were Raan
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skirts. See how crazy that sounds. And this is what the ancient Hebrews
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were hung. That's what the man's dressed in. In today's time when we
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consider this a big old dress, what am I getting there? I'm getting
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that how so many men, especially black men, start to define yourself and
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your manhood and masculinity based off of Western conceptions of what it means to be
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a man. And you start putting a whole bunch of beep on pants.
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This is what they supposed to have dressed like in them in the Bible.
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You feel me, this is what Moses part the red seeing a skirt like
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a dress like this, What is that have to do with buck breaking some
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man's The symbolism of a man putting on a dress somehow makes them unmanly,
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and that is a new nettional manifestation of buck breaking, not all but a
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lot of y'all that love evoking this concept of buck breaking, y'all love,
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equating this concept to the mere presence of black people in the LGBT community,
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especially when they are man, a lot lot of y'all. You're so lost
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in the South of Western notions of manhood that you start to justify literally erasing
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other people's presence because they are man and gay, because hey, that must
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be a sign of buck breaking. You think about it as most simplistic forms.
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A lot of people would negotiate the masculinity of gay men because they are
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gay. Is that not emasculating or do you believe that gay men are automatically
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emasculated? And you on the game because somebody took advantage of you. You
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probably on the game because you was abused on y'all gay in the community,
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because the bug breaking reductionist statements. Education is elevation man, m And we
34:53
do hear that it was. It was. It was purposely why I played
34:59
that video because we do hear that. We do hear say, oh,
35:02
he must be gay because he was great. We do hear that. And
35:12
you heard when he said in the prison system. They do that to break
35:20
the black man down, to break his spirit. This is why they do
35:25
this. The emasculation of black men is at all time high. It's definitely
35:32
at an all time high. Oh thank you, sister. She says she
35:36
loves the lipstick. It's called Nipsy. I don't know if the young lady
35:42
still has her makeup line, but it's colors by Kish. I'll send you
35:46
the link, but it's Nipsy again. I don't know if she still has
35:51
her makeup line, but I ordered this like a couple of years ago.
35:53
But thank you. But they love equate a person that was violated as a
36:04
reason for why they're gay, and I wholeheartedly do not believe that. But
36:13
they love to emasculate black men. They love this because that's the way to
36:19
break the black men, and that's what they strive to do. We see
36:23
it with law enforcement. We see this every day. How many stories have
36:30
I discussed where they haven't emasculated a black man. How many times have I
36:38
told you women emasculate black men. We see it all the time and again.
36:45
They do it for likes and views, and they do the government.
36:52
They love to break the black man down. Mothers do this to their sons.
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See a lot of y'all aren't ready for these conversations. A lot of
37:07
y'all send me messages and say, oh, I'm bashing. No, I'm
37:10
not. I'm being honest. Because we do emascualate our black men. We
37:17
do whatever we can to break them down, and we do it publicly.
37:22
We love to have our audience, y'all. We love to get our men
37:25
in front of our friends and families and talk to them like they're this big
37:35
or we'll go live and do it the way they emasculated George Floyd. They
37:45
broke them down and all the other countless black men that have been on the
37:51
live by law enforcement, the government, the prison systems. We definitely see
37:59
it there and they do it as they say, to put claim on theirs
38:07
fresh meat, new meat. And then the man eventually unalives himself because he's
38:15
been broken beyond repair. And we celebrate this. You'll see people out here
38:27
that celebrate this breaking a black man's spirit. But let's not forget how they
38:36
broke the black women too. Black women were great and were forced to carry
38:45
children by their owners. Then once the children were born, in of age
38:52
they were sold to the highest bidder. So do I believe but breaking to
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be the origin of the gay identity in the black community. Absolutely not.
39:07
You just like who you're like, you love who you love. I never
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felt like a man that was violated sexually made him gay, and I spoke
39:25
to that. So no, I'll never believe that buck breaking is the origin
39:30
of the gay identity in the Black community. No, are we still seeing
39:37
emasculation of men black men in present day? We are. I just gave
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you multiple examples of what we see and how they love to break down and
39:51
break the soul and the spirit of the black man to the point where the
39:54
black man has no other choice but to say I'm done, sickly sickney.
40:07
So I want to know what are your thoughts on buck breaking are again,
40:12
are we still seeing the emasculation of black man in present day? I know
40:19
they felt like they were buck breaking Kyrie Irvin. When Kyrie Irvin stood up
40:23
for the video and they said, oh, he was sharing anti Semitic You
40:30
wanted to break him down. I tell him, we're not gonna pay you.
40:32
We're gonna take all of this away from you. We're gonna take your
40:36
livelihood away from you. And that's that's one way to break a man's soul
40:40
in his spirit, to take away what he loves the most. A man
40:46
loves his woman, his children, his mother, his father, his sisters,
40:52
brothers. You take them away. What does the black man have left
40:57
now? Nothing? You've broken him down. You women, you buck break
41:07
men, maybe not physically, but mentally you do, do you emasculator?
41:15
Look at Jada Pinket and yes, I said Jada. But when we go
41:25
back and we look at the slaves that were brought over here, and they
41:36
used men for their own sexual gratification, and they would have parties again,
41:45
y'all, celebrations of publicly humiliating and sexually violating a man. And if they
41:53
didn't sexually violate him by graping him, they were sexually mutilate him. And
42:01
when I say sexually mutilate him, they would cut his genitals off. Trigger
42:06
warning, trigger warning, let me say that I'm so sorry. Trigger warning.
42:12
They would sexually mutilating. They would hang him upside down by his legs.
42:21
They would have his arms tied and they would put a face mask over
42:24
his face and they would go in and they would mutilate him and would hold
42:36
it up as a badge of honor to the point where the slave would bleed
42:44
to death and eventually die. This is what we see with buck breaking.
42:52
Let me go back. That's the history. And again, don't forget slavery
43:00
just into one hundred and sixty years ago. One hundred and sixty years ago,
43:10
but buck breaking didn't stop. What I don't understand is why are we
43:22
still allowing this to continue in present day? We see it. You'll see
43:30
the videos. The guy was his name. They did an episode Fleee Johnson
43:38
who bragged and still brags to this date about how he loves to emasculate men
43:50
for his own sexual gratification. Again, we see this in the prison systems.
44:02
We see the guards, we see the inmates that emasculate other black men,
44:10
again for their own sexual gratification. We see women that emasculate black men.
44:20
We see black men that emasculate other black men. Why does this keep
44:27
happening because we allow it, We don't stand up and we don't try to
44:36
fight this. In fact, we contribute more to it than any other race.
44:47
Sad of very truth. Again, we see this on social media for
44:57
likes and views. Y'all love to publicly humiliate people. Y'all love to break
45:04
a person's soul and a brace a person's spirit for your own personal game.
45:12
You're no different than the slave master. It's just in present day and it's
45:20
just transcended, that's all, from one generation to the next. Very sad,
45:30
very very very sad, and disturbing to know that this still goes on.
45:42
I look and again, as I was preparing for this episode, I
45:49
watched the movie Buck Breaking. Again. Shout out to Tarikna Sheet for the
45:54
movie Buck Breaking. I recommend y'all watch that movie. Very sad, in
46:06
fact, brutally honest. The emasculation of black men. I just I'm taken,
46:22
aback. I've choked up my words. I can't even transcend my words
46:30
the way that I need to, because, like I say, just watching
46:35
this and going over the history of this, it's heartbreaking, very devastating that
46:47
to know, Jule says, it's true, that heartbreaking to know that our
46:53
ancestors went through this, our lineage of people inward at the hands of their
47:05
masters and then were sold like nothing. And the way that black men were
47:13
used again for sexual gratification and to break their souls, break their spirits,
47:20
to break the black men. And this was done in front of their wives
47:30
and their children. Their babies had the witness this. I'm trying to hold
47:39
my emotions in because I can only imagine the devastation of watching your husband,
47:52
your father, your brother, your cousin, your uncle be violated and there's
47:59
nothing you can do about it but stand and watch. And then they were
48:05
beaten, m and beaten over and over and over again. And they only
48:22
did this to the most defiant slaves, the ones that fought back again.
48:30
Buck hence the word buck breaking, same way they do horses. To break
48:37
a horse in a horse that is out of control, that can't be tamed.
48:44
Buck breaking, We're gonna break you down, one way or another.
48:49
That's what buck breaking comes from. So Big Daddy says, Hey, babe,
48:57
it's very sad how our ancestors were used as examples to keep the others
49:00
in line. And I'm really trying to keep my emotions and check because this
49:07
still goes on today in present times. We see this, We see our
49:17
black men constantly being emasculated for like views in some form of gratification. Ooh,
49:30
y'all are I M. We see this all the time again, Tyrene
49:45
Nichols, emasculated by the very same men that looked just like him, broke
49:55
this man down. We see it in the music industry, the government,
50:07
teachers. They love to humiliate our black men. They love to make our
50:15
black men feel like this, make them feel that big, to the point
50:22
where again, you've broken his spirit so bad, to the point where he
50:30
feels like suicide is his only way out. So again, shout out to
50:39
Tarikna. She'd I really just can't even say his name enough, but I
50:44
appreciate him in the movie. But he also had more to say with regards
50:52
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he plays for the Heat, basketball player for the Heat. He showed
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up. This dude showed up with a goddamn Dominican blowout. This dude had
52:08
pierce lips, pierce nose, eyebrow piercing, and a goddamn Dominican fucking silk
52:15
press. Where did what happened to this dude? And he's going for a
52:22
new look. I'm telling y'all the buck breaking is real. Go to buck
52:30
breakingmovie dot com. See, the white supremacists were very upset when I did
52:34
the movie Buck Breaking, because you know, we tapped into something that they've
52:37
been doing for centuries. Family, I can't reiterate enough that buck breaking is
52:43
real. To emasculate big, muscular, athletic black men, that's been a
52:50
practice in white supremacist society for a long time. I really want y'all to
52:55
study the movie Buck Breaking. Go to Buck breakingmovie dot com. That's a
53:01
very heavy movie that y'all need to peep out and we break down the history
53:05
of this that's so real. This is such a real thing, man,
53:09
And there's always this ritualistic and nascualization of a black man. I just saw
53:16
our brother Usher. I love Usher. Usher was up here modeling a damn
53:21
dress because they just announced Usha is going to be performing on the super Bowl.
53:27
That's the biggest stage in the world. And right after they announced that,
53:30
he's taking pictures in a damn dress. They got to make sure that
53:36
if we put your image out there for the entire world to see, we
53:42
want the image of a black man to be out there with some dresses on.
53:46
We got to make sure you got a couple of dresses on if your
53:50
image is gonna go out there. I wish our brother Usha did not do
53:52
that. I wish he had not have done that. I really wish our
53:57
brothers stopped doing that bullshit. Stop letting these people put y'all in positions like
54:02
that. You got enough paper. I know USh. His show up in
54:08
Vegas is phenomenal. Usher should be making a gazillion dollars up there in Vegas.
54:15
You don't really need the money to do all that stuff. That's why
54:20
I like people like Bernie Mac. There's a very famous clip of the Bernie
54:22
Mac Show. Behind the scenes. I think I played it on my broadcast
54:28
before where they were doing some promotional pictures and some of the producers were telling
54:35
the kids to position themselves around Bernie Mac like, Bernie, you sit in
54:37
the middle, and one of the kids they're gonna sit here, and another
54:42
kid is gonna sit in the back. And then one of the white women,
54:45
one of the producers, was like, okay, the little boy,
54:46
go sit on Bernie's lap, and Bernie was like, oh no, no,
54:51
no, no, no, no no, we ain't not gonna do
54:52
that. Now you're get in the back. Bernie shut that shit down.
54:58
They kept trying to get the little boy to sit in Bernie's lap. And
55:01
he's not a leg like what boy's like ten or eleven. You're not a
55:05
little boy too big to be sitting in another man's lap. Bernie r ip
55:10
do I good brother. He understood the visuals of that. He knew that
55:15
would not be a good look for him or that child. A big ass
55:19
kid sitting on a grown man's lap. That's not a good look. And
55:22
Bernie shut it down. We need more men like that in the industry to
55:25
say hey, nah, no, no, no, no, no,
55:27
we don't do that, and that's okay to say that you see. But
55:35
they love an image of a Jimmy Butler showing up with a just for me
55:38
perm at practice and a lip ring. They love that they run with that
55:44
image. They love that they love us with these buck broken, dysfunctional images.
55:51
Yeah hmm to a certain degree. Let me say this, and again
56:00
shout out to Taritna She because he does speak a lot of facts a lot
56:04
of times. Sometimes I don't always agree but what he has to say.
56:08
But I remember specifically that clip that he's speaking about with Bernie mag where they
56:14
wanted, uh, oh guy, what is his what was his name on
56:17
the show? I can't think of his name on the show, but I
56:21
know in real life his name is Jeremy Suarez. They wanted him to sit
56:25
on Bernie's lap, and Bernie was like, no, We're not doing that.
56:29
He'd be right here next to me, like he's not sitting on my
56:31
lap. And I do agree with what tarrekna She'd had to say when he
56:37
said, we have to stop contributing to the emasculation of black men, because
56:43
again, we still see this in present day. We still see black men
56:51
and the only way they're gonna make money is that they dress up like women.
56:52
And we see this a lot. And what I'm about to say,
56:58
please don't take this is no shape to the people that act and dress up
57:04
like women. But it's almost like they're ridiculing black women by dressing up as
57:08
women. As almost it's like a bad thing to be a black woman.
57:13
And they use the black men to do it, and they make lots and
57:17
lots and lots of money, They get lots and lots of lots of views.
57:21
We see it all the time. You have look at Tyler Perry,
57:24
he did Medea. You have and and please don't get it, don't get
57:30
it wrong. There are white actors that have dressed up in drag also,
57:35
Okay, you have Patrick Swayze, you have Robin Williams who did Missus Dougfire,
57:40
You had John Legozamo. The list goes on and on and on and
57:45
on and on and on. But that takes me back to when Dave Chappelle
57:51
walked away from what was it, fifty million dollars because they wanted him to
57:57
put on a dress. I go back and I listen to what Kat Williams
58:01
says. He said, you know, y'all sell your soul for Hollywood.
58:07
They want to put you in dresses. They want you to do this,
58:08
they want you to do that. We see the emasculation in our faces,
58:12
and you know what, we go to the box office and we support it.
58:16
We go on. We support that. I see on these social media
58:22
I see it on Instagram, I see it on TikTok, these men that
58:25
are in wigs and lipstick and they're getting millions of use. But you see
58:34
a regular black man who's just in jeans or shirt whatever, and he may
58:40
get five or six likes of use. But they love to see our black
58:45
men in wigs and heels and lipstick for lights and views, again for personal
58:51
gratification. So we still contribute to the emasculation of black men. So that
58:58
goes back to my question. Are we still seeing the emasculation of black men
59:01
in present day? And we are. We see it every day and the
59:07
fact that we contribute to it makes it even worse. I'm glad Tyler Perry
59:14
stopped wearing the dresser, stopped doing the madea. I'm glad he did.
59:17
But as you see, since he stopped dressing up as madea, have his
59:23
movies been doing very well. I'll wait every movie that Kevin Hard has done
59:35
since he was dressed up as a woman, havn't been so good. He's
59:42
still flourishing. I give him back, you know. And that's like I
59:45
say, I don't take away from what they do, but you take these
59:51
men out of these dressers and out of these wigs and lipstick and heels,
59:54
and then tell me what do you have. They're not flourishing, they're not
1:00:00
prospering. They love to see us like that, and it's only us that
1:00:07
pushes this. We encourage this, you know, for our men to be
1:00:15
in wigs and dresses and high heels and lipstick, and we think it's funny.
1:00:24
If you notice on social media, that's all you're starting to see all
1:00:30
these people that all these men that are going viral got on wigs, lipstick,
1:00:36
dresses, heels. And this is no shade to my lgbt QUI a
1:00:39
community. Okay, let me say that right now. Let me put that
1:00:42
disclaimer out right now. But that's what they're doing now for like sind views,
1:00:51
Let me put a wig on, let me put some lipstick on,
1:00:52
let me dress up like a woman, and I'm gonna go viral, and
1:00:57
they do. Why are we no longer seeing the epitome of the strong black
1:01:06
man anymore. That's the million dollar question. Why are we no longer seeing
1:01:13
that? Why is this no longer encouraged? Why is this no longer promoted?
1:01:20
Because they want to break the spirit of the black man. They're gonna
1:01:28
do whatever they can to publicly aumiliate the black man. So they tell you,
1:01:34
in order to make a million dollars, you gotta put address a wig
1:01:37
and some heels on. And guess what they do it while they're being laughed
1:01:43
at and ridiculed. They're making money off of your foolishness. Not your foolishness,
1:01:50
they're making Let me repeat that, let me let me let me rephrase
1:01:53
that, they're making money by watching you make a fool of yourself, almost
1:02:00
like how they used to do us in black face, and they still do
1:02:07
black face. But again, are we still seeing their emasculation of black men
1:02:12
in present day? Yeah? Are we still seeing buck breaking in present day?
1:02:17
Yeah? We need to quit contributing to that, stop supporting things that
1:02:30
break the spirit and the soul of our black men. We have to stop
1:02:34
contributing to that, because you can't say, oh, I want to see
1:02:38
the strong black man, I want to see this, this, this,
1:02:42
this, this, But yet you're supporting the humiliation of a black man.
1:02:49
You can't have it both ways. You gotta choose one side of the coin,
1:02:52
either heads or you won tails. I don't. I can't, So
1:03:00
let me say this. I can no longer sit and support the emasculation of
1:03:05
black men. I can't do it. I can't stand by and watch y'all
1:03:07
continue to try to break I'm so sorry, break the spirit of a black
1:03:13
man anymore. I can't do it. I can't sit by and support that
1:03:17
because again, I'm contributing to exactly what the oppressors want us to do.
1:03:27
Unfortunate but truth, we as black women, we have to stop buck breaking
1:03:37
black men, our sons, our husbands, boyfriends, whatever, cousins,
1:03:43
uncles, whatever, you want to whatever, But we have to stop doing
1:03:47
that because we're doing everything exactly that the slave masters were doing in slavery.
1:04:00
We're challenging the black man, the head of the household. We want to
1:04:03
break them down for our own personal gratification to say we have control. Buck
1:04:15
break again. We see it in the prisons, we see it in everyday
1:04:26
life, the breaking down of the black man, his soul, his spirit.
1:04:34
We take everything, and then we do it in front of our children,
1:04:41
We do it in front of our our friends. We do a publicly.
1:04:44
We get on social media and do it for light timpus. We get
1:04:50
on here and we buck break. So we're no different than the slave masters.
1:04:57
Are we are? We one of the same, just a different color.
1:05:08
And we play into it. This is a look of sarcasm. We
1:05:15
play into it. We support it, we advocate for it, we push
1:05:20
for it. Yes girl, yes bitch, that's what we do while they're
1:05:30
laughing and making millions of dollars for their own great of good and we're humiliated.
1:05:43
Shout out to the black man that refused to be emasculated. Shout out
1:05:45
to those strong black brothers. Shout out to the women that don't play into
1:05:51
that stereotype. Why why do we keep doing this? Like I say,
1:06:08
going back and watching that movie sad and you don't realize that buck breaking still
1:06:17
exists until you watch that movie. We see it right before our lives and
1:06:32
again for lights and views. See back during the slave time, there was
1:06:40
no social media, so the whole town will come out. It was almost
1:06:44
like a celebration. It was a celebration, not almost It was a celebration
1:06:50
because they were gonna show that strong black man, we're gonna break you,
1:06:57
We're gonna control you one way or another, and we're gonna do it by
1:07:02
force. So again, the whole town will come out and you will see
1:07:11
this man tied up, close off, bent over and sexually humiliated in front
1:07:29
of his wife, his children, and the other slaves. That was a
1:07:34
way to teach them a lesson that if you get out of line, this
1:07:38
is what's gonna happen to you. Almost like, what what's his name?
1:07:45
Magnaire? No, not Magnaire? Uh, what's his name? The owner
1:07:49
of the Texans. You can't let the slaves. No, I'm so sorry.
1:07:55
You can't let the inmates run the prison. We see it in football
1:08:03
Colin Kaepernick, prime example. They want to break his spirit because he kneeled
1:08:15
in support of police brutality, not in support, but in support of getting
1:08:20
rid of of ending police brutality. They e mascualated him, they broke him
1:08:29
down. They buck broke Colin Kaepernick because they took away the one thing he
1:08:33
loved the most, and that was the game. And y'all support this.
1:08:45
So is it still going on in present day? Absolutely? Will it then?
1:08:50
Who knows? Will we keep supporting you might? Or will you speak
1:09:00
out and solidarity with the black man and support and stop contributing to the book
1:09:08
breaking of black men. I will sick, sad, disheartening, and disgusting
1:09:19
to note everything our ancestors went through and even what our new generation is enduring
1:09:28
today in present time. Hospitals, your doctors, your city councilmen, telling
1:09:40
your own house, they'll keep doing whatever they can to keep breaking down the
1:09:46
spirit and the soul of the black man. But we can't allow that.
1:09:53
We have to. I know we will, will you know? Let me
1:09:57
say this. I pray that some form of change comes before my eyes closed
1:10:02
before I leave this world. I pray that us black men and black women
1:10:12
will come together in solidarity and unify, build businesses instead of trying to tear
1:10:20
and break one another down. That's what I pray for. I pray that
1:10:29
you women seek the help in the therapy that you deserve because you contribute to
1:10:34
their masculation of black men, whether you want to believe it or not,
1:10:38
what you do to my brothers. I pray that you stop trying to break
1:10:44
down your brother I pray that you stop trying to buck break your brother and
1:10:49
uplift him and encourage them, empower him and bring him up. Because again,
1:10:56
we see this in present day. We see this in the prisons.
1:11:00
So what makes us different than what they did? Didn't know what they're doing?
1:11:04
Now you tell me, m h I'm so glad I got through that.
1:11:16
I struggled, but I did. I made it through finally. But
1:11:26
my final thoughts, I think I almost gave y'all. I think I did
1:11:30
just give y'all my final thoughts. But check out that movie Buck Breaking.
1:11:35
It's buckbreakingthemovie dot com. Check out the movie. It's by Tariq na Shee.
1:11:42
Great movie. I can understand why people were upset about the movie.
1:11:49
I could completely understand because that's a part of history. They want us to
1:11:55
forget it happened, and then it continues to happen. What will we do?
1:12:04
Will we continue to support or will we stand with our brothers? I
1:12:12
can't tell you what to do, but I can only tell you what I'm
1:12:14
gonna do. And I'm gonna stop supporting the foolishness and stand for the encouragement
1:12:26
and the empowerment of the black man, and I try to break his Soul
1:12:31
in his spirit from my own personal gratification. I hope maybe one of y'all
1:12:38
will do the same. And I guesschools with my final thoughts for tonight,
1:12:43
what another episode for Black Girl Interrupted Baby for Black History Month? Like I'm
1:12:47
really truly enjoying it, but I want to talk about Thursday's episode Soul Oh
1:12:56
for Thursday. Thursday, Thursday, I am Black History Month, where we
1:13:01
are gonna talk about Oscarville. H A lot of y'all may not know,
1:13:10
but huh, that is the city buried under Lake Lanier. So I want
1:13:16
to get into the history of Lake Lanier, and then I want to end
1:13:19
up by highlighting some of the top ten greatest moments on Black history. I
1:13:26
y'all already know what number one is gonna be, but yeah, we're gonna
1:13:29
get in this discuss an oscar Ben in Lake Lanier and how it came to
1:13:33
be and how that was once a thriving city in Forsyth County, a county
1:13:39
in Georgia, how it was flourishing for the beautiful black community, and how
1:13:45
they single handedly destroyed it. That'll be Thursday Nights episode. Don't forget I
1:13:51
stream live every Tuesday and Thursday eight thirty pm Central Time, nine thirty Eastern
1:13:56
Time. I stream live Facebook and YouTube. If you have missed any other
1:14:01
episodes, always go back on YouTube. You could always catch the videos on
1:14:05
Facebook to catch up. If it's something that you want to see your girl
1:14:11
talk about. Let me know, y'all know, I ain't scared. Y'all
1:14:14
know your girl ain't afraid of bring nothing to the table. Y'all know I
1:14:16
ain't scared. But tonight it's been a great episode. Again, I got
1:14:23
choked up, couldn't even get my words out nothing. And y'all know,
1:14:27
I've never done an episode where I've just been speechless, where I've just been
1:14:30
like my words just aren't coming together. But tonight was one of those episodes.
1:14:36
Oh, it was just definitely one of those because, like I said,
1:14:40
going back and reading the history of buck breaking and how our black men
1:14:47
continue to be masculated, it's so sad to me, and it made me
1:14:54
sit back and reevaluate my own way of thinking and the things that I support
1:14:59
in the things that I don't need to continue to support. So that's why
1:15:02
it was a little difficult for me tonight, but hey, I got through
1:15:05
it. Shout out to everybody that tuned in to support your girl. I
1:15:10
love y'all so much and I appreciate again to continue support. Also, wanna
1:15:15
let y'all know, uh March, It's gonna be good. It's gonna get
1:15:21
a little deep, a little tough, but I'm here for y'all know.
1:15:26
I'm always up for a challenge. Y'all know I don't ever run from a
1:15:29
fight. Never, I don't. I don't ever run from a fight.
1:15:31
I'm always down for the calls for the grind. I'm down to have any
1:15:35
type of conversation that you guys want to have. Like, by all means,
1:15:40
I am so on that note, don't forget to like, comments,
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share, and subscribe to Black Girl Interrupted. I'm on Facebook, I'm on
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Instagram, I'm on TikTok, I'm on YouTube, and I stream to every
1:15:54
streaming platform there is out here, Apple, Google, Spotify. Oh god,
1:16:00
it's so many. I can't it's so many, but'll get y'all catch
1:16:05
the drift, y'all really do catch the drift. But on that note,
1:16:09
I do want to say thank y'all again so much for tuning into another episode
1:16:12
of Black Girl Interrupted. Again, it's your girl. Ash bringing y'all each
1:16:16
and every week a great and juicy topic. Again, I'm so excited to
1:16:21
see what the top ten highlights of Black history and what do y'all think is
1:16:27
gonna be number one? Y'all drop in the comments, let me know what
1:16:30
do y'all think it's gonna be the number one highlight in Black history? Because
1:16:33
we definitely have to go out with a bang. Even though they only give
1:16:36
us twenty eight days in February, black history is every day. So I
1:16:42
want youry to continue even after February is gone. I still want youry to
1:16:45
continue to celebrate being black. It's a beautiful thing. It's not a bad
1:16:49
thing, you know, but embrace it, love it, love on it,
1:16:56
and continue to speak. You know, there things that they don't teach
1:17:00
us in school. Do your own research, do your own reading. So
1:17:05
on that note, I'm gonna go ahead and bring this episode to a close.
1:17:09
But I love you guys. Happy Tuesday. Tomorrow is Wednesday, Wellness
1:17:14
Wednesday. I will be dropping some wellness tips across my timeline on Facebook.
1:17:20
Just something a little motivating, something encouraging, something I want to start doing,
1:17:26
or someone that might be lost, someone that might be just in the
1:17:29
midst of their storm and don't know what to do, don't know where to
1:17:31
go. So I think I'm gonna start doing that every Wednesday and Monday.
1:17:35
So I probably do like mental Mondays and wellness Wednesdays, where I'm just dropping
1:17:41
just little nuggets here and there, just letting you know that, hey,
1:17:43
I see you, that I'm proud of you, that I love you,
1:17:45
and that regardless of who shows up for you, just keep showing up for
1:17:49
yourself. So on that note, I love you, guys, and I'm
1:17:54
and again I will see y'all. Thursday, eight thirty pm Central Time,
1:18:00
thirty Eastern time, same time, same place. Don't forget to tell a
1:18:04
friend, like share, comment, all that other good great stuff for Black
1:18:08
Girl Interrupted. So if there's ever any topic that you want to talk about,
1:18:12
you guys know you're gonna shoot me an email. Black Girl Interrupted Podcast
1:18:16
at gmail dot com. Send me a topic. If it's something that's going
1:18:20
on in your in your neck of the woods and you want me to talk
1:18:24
about it's something that we may have missed, shoot your girl a email.
1:18:27
Let me know, like we could get it popping. I am still looking
1:18:30
for guests, but not until May is when I'm really gonna start doing a
1:18:39
lot of collaborations. So if anyone wants to collaborate, like I say,
1:18:42
don't forget send your girl. Let me post the email up at the time.
1:18:46
Here we go. Oh no, that's the website. I'm so sorry.
1:18:49
There's the email Black Girl Interrupted Podcast at gmail dot com. Shoot me
1:18:54
an email. Let me know if you want to collapse. I do have
1:18:58
some things that are coming up for anybody that wants to network with me.
1:19:01
I will be in Atlanta April twenty seven for the Black Podcast Festival. So
1:19:09
if anyone wants to connect, y'all want to sit down and try to get
1:19:11
some things happen, shoot your girla email and let's and let's make it work.
1:19:15
Let's let's let's make it shape. I'm always down to make big moves.
1:19:19
So on that note, I love you guys. I will see y'all
1:19:24
Thursday. So love y'all, Happy Tuesday. Have a great rest of your night.