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Why Juneteenth Should Be More Than A Celebration - Ep. 185 w/ Sharea Ayers · Black Fridays: Business Growth for Entrepreneurs, Creators & Professionals

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[SPEAKER_02]: When you think about the history of Juneteenth, and what they did collectively, which was purchased in Massapation Park, because given Jim Crow, black people could not only end, and so they left Galveston after learning their emancipation, they were like, yo, we want to come together and celebrate, but they could, because again, they couldn't cultivate the land.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So they bought land at a Massapation Park, and it was called again,
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's what they celebrated the first Junting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's the primary reason to celebrate because it is the oldest holiday commemorating the end of enslavement, which is something that people try to brush under the rug and make it seem like we should stop celebrating or acknowledging the fact that this was a part of American history.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now that we got that business out of the way, we have very special returning guests in the building.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Somebody who has made an ascension since the last time that we seen them and very happy to have them back on a platform.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure it airs how you doing today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a sit today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yeah, because last time we saw you, you were the executive director and memberships for Black Lears Detroit and now you're the COO.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So shout out to you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Shout out to the Y.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and the team, the team is strong.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I added some people since last time we saw you, it may be two or three.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, two contractors and a new employee.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's good stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And BOD, Black Lears Detroit, just to reiterate for people who may have not seen your previous episode where no one's episode previously is, I see it as the fiduciary organization for to enable black owned businesses and nonprofits in the city of Detroit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm sure you could be able to give much more context to that with the seat that you're sitting in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, that's that's not a bad synopsis.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So kudos to you for that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But that was me being a sarcastic.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But no, no, you're right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the whole thing is that black literally trait is a funding vehicle and the reason why we use the term vehicle is because we looked for
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[SPEAKER_02]: the community to be the philanthropists.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we ask every day people that believe in fairness and the advancement of entrepreneurs of African descent to donate a dollar a week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We take that dollar, put it towards no interest loans and grants for business owners and nonprofits, nonprofit leaders, they excuse me of African descent.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so when I say that technically, everyone is of African descent, you know, if anybody knows me, let's not do that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let me do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I'm the Sam.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You do what I'm saying.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I give what you say.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, so that's what we don't so identify with the diaspora.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There you go.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know 99% of the world's mitochondrial DNA.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He traced that Africa.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Good time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to argue with no educator and teachers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How are you with you?
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're enough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, first in this topic and I believe you'll degrees are legitimate as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, yeah, so I'm not even going.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not even going digging in that, but as far as your work with BOD last time that we talked, you had mentioned that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's essentially like a blessing to be able to work for your people, which of people each and every day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I had told you in passing, and I think the small business summit or the, I can't remember, I messed up the name of the event, but even that you all had hosted down town at the Pistol Lewis College.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was telling you that your team is BOD is small and numbers, but mighty in terms of the work and impact that you all are able to have.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So could you talk to us a little bit about just like what that impact is to sit in the seat that you have to work with the people that you're doing then to be a driving that mission every day to be able to financially empower our people and have an organization that's about economic group
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[SPEAKER_02]: right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So overall, impact my numbers, we have a little over 5,000 members and we're looking to get more because we want to get to the point where we don't have to get philanthropic fundraising dollars.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because when you think about it, black people are the second largest consumer group in America, but we are lower on the total poll as it pertains to actual wealth and riches.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So when you think about our collective power economically, that's pretty much the concept that we are looking to grow an action with BLD.
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[SPEAKER_02]: In addition to that, we've been in
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[SPEAKER_02]: will be able to help over, well, as a community because you remember too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So as a collective, VOD has been able to serve over 900 businesses.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We've put out over $7 million in the hands of entrepreneurs or African descent.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And what else?
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're just continuing to grow in that space.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's the impact by a few numbers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But in regards to the team, each one of the team members
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's the part where, like I said, before we've been blessed to even have the reach, because you know how it is with non-profits, like you kind of building a plan as you fly it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And if they get us when the wine and some of the other founding board members put BLD in action, it was right before we knew that 2020 was going to hit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: you know, so as soon as we got a grant money was going out the door because the need was there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I say all that to say the impact is truly because of the work and having dedicated people who believe in community and then having community actually buy into it and put their dollar word their their power should lie.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Most definitely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm put a pause in action because I feel you so I have a ton more questions for you, but you should be familiar with this segment
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm chilling like a villain in the studio.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It can be with you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You about to get your rap and like a break.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Good time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Good time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So tell us why I'm asking you to wrap up my question then since you only gave us a half of bark What are you listening to right now?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's on me going to repeat?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh That's a good question Because I really haven't even been listening to much lately
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's a toffee, because that's just kind of really been, it's been like so many meetings lately.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've been talking a lot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So when I get in the car, I'm just like, let me just be quiet for a minute.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But Alex, I'd be able to go to that concert this weekend, so I'll stay out of the eyes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nope.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What is your, because this is going to be part of our conversation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's your favorite thing about Juneteenths?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, my favorite thing about Juneteenth is really the committee, the Juneteenth Jubilee Detroit Committee and I'm in my dashboard day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yes, but yeah, we don't say it out for later.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, fair enough, but no, they actually have helped the actual day for me, because when I think about everybody on the committee, they've literally been able to help and give their time, treasure and talent towards actually honoring what Juneteenth is about.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And when you think about that, somebody has to still remain the Juneteenth Jubilee Detroit Committee because when you think about the history of Juneteenth and what they did collectively, which was purchased a emancipation park because given Jim Crow, black people could not only end and so they left Galveston and they called it like the scatter, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So...
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[SPEAKER_02]: Anyways, as people want to go look for their family after learning their emancipation, they were like, yo, we want to come together and celebrate, but they could, because again, they couldn't cultivate the land.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So they bought land at a emancipation park, and it was cool, again, people wouldn't ever find answers together to purchase land.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's what they celebrated the first Junting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's really like my favorite part.
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[SPEAKER_02]: being able to honestly have a collective experience to celebrate freedom.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So if you could take a vacation right now, where would you go?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I would I want to get to the continent of Africa, um, I have heard a lot of great things about Ghana to be honest I don't even really know how I'm like, I don't care what country I go to, but I'm like, but, um, No, but I say I want to get to the continent of Africa.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Say less, have you been any other part?
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, but I have not.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have only been in Asia, Europe, and of course, North America in the Caribbean, okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What should people do if they ever get to experience a detrace on them?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm, they should definitely go to the river, well, um, I would, of course, go to, I would go to the Avenue of Fashion.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I would also hit up the museums.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I would go see a show somewhere because, you know, do you try this the second largest theater district in America?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So a lot of people don't know that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Did I know that?
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's not one New York.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But um, so I would eat a Detroit, eat at a Detroit restaurant, I don't know which one yet for real, but since I live my home girl, I'm gonna say I've you kitchen and cocktails, you know?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't have a little razzled dazzle or hit a roof top somewhere.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, yeah, so those are the five things I would definitely say.
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[SPEAKER_01]: okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And excuse me, if you could have a dinner with five of the ancestors, who would you invite to dinner and what would y'all have?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Five of the ancestors.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I would definitely invite my grandma, Hallyce, because she is hilarious.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Wait, will the second part of that question?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what would y'all have for dinner?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so I wouldn't buy my grandma at least, um, I wouldn't fight Jesus, I wouldn't fight, um, I didn't be wheels, I wouldn't fight for a Hampton, and I wouldn't fight my dad, so I wouldn't fight the five of them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I did.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I really see food with still seafood will be on it on the menu.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's value of the, you know, what, so um, dang.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's the, I don't know, I'm panicking.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Lou to be on the bill, too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But anyway, we would definitely have some seafood, um, whatever my dad would like because he was a picky eater, uh, a veggie of sorts.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm gonna just say some,
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[SPEAKER_02]: I probably would like Procolini on the grill, and I probably would never have broccoli like this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, and then it would have to be something, you know, some soulful items of sort.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We definitely see food for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, can I pull up?
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[SPEAKER_02]: You ain't no ancestor.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I, can I come to dinner?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You ain't no ancestor.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Are you?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, thank you for engaging in freestyle for our days once again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So going back into it because you got into it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Juneteenth Jubilee, you had started the inception of Juneteenth Jubilee has started when you were, I believe it was around the time that you, you're unfortunately a father with passion.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you were saying people celebrate same practice day and wanted to be able to figure out how you could do something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: you didn't want Juneteenth to become a St. Patrick Day type of celebration.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So given that that was the inception and the foundation of Juneteenth Jubilee being able to actually attend the event in person last year, I believe that was my first time attending Juneteenth Jubilee because my found out about it, I wasn't living in Michigan, but it seemed that seemed to be, and of course you would know where to not do the larger scale that
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that wasn't the largest thing I've been like I'm thinking like activations the space like how much stuff like was going on like with or had it has there been more
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[SPEAKER_02]: There has been more.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the thing is, we used to do a whole weekend like Friday, Saturday, Sunday based on the partnerships.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so we actually scaled because one of our partners had decided, hey, this is a lot, which I respect.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So actually, we kind of scaled down a little bit as a year ago.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Gotcha, okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do the capacity.
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[SPEAKER_01]: understood, understood, but thank you for that, though.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, nonetheless, had a had a great time loved the intentionality behind it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was very family friendly and something for everyone to be a part of.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I just wanted you to talk a little bit about the journey from that origin to where you are now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And when this episode comes out, it'll be that weekend of Juneteenth Jubilee, it'll be actually Juneteenth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So could you just kind of talk about where you went from there to where you are
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, the first Juneteenth, um, I honestly, like I said, we were able to put that together within two months, because again, you got to remember that same Patrick's Day, kicked off everything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then the next day, well, after that weekend, I called the right museum as who's in charge of their Juneteenth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I got connected with Jatsu who was an amazing partner and then that's what a first Juneteenth got started.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So within two months we were able to work with our first partner, which was a childhood right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then that's why I say I just really love the committee because the majority of them I did not know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I put the call on Facebook or whoever to show up at the first meeting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and people pulled up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: People pulled up and I was like, look, and there's so many people literally have been rocking me for the past seven events.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So from when you think about the pressure when they get their whole community event within two months and just the outpour, like that was amazing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: to now, all I can really say is that the growth has come from the blessings of partnerships, people getting the word out, and then the committee bringing in new activations to like kind of see, like, hey, this also is what freedom looks like, you know, and when we think about that and just the concept of being free, being free is just really being able to live the kind of life
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[SPEAKER_02]: being able to embody spaces like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's kind of like where the growth has gone, because like for instance, when we partner with each market brewing company and batch brewing company, two different breweries, but I never thought about trying to see if we could get a black artist on a beer that we actually made.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's just like every partner has brought something different to the table.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's pretty much been the growth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So last year we partner with
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[SPEAKER_02]: and that's all we had it there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Addison and the team there, they were very welcoming, you know, um, so I said I had to say each year, it varies because of the partners that we had.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So in 2020, and Gabris is so my uncle Dan will on the building, and it's called the building literally, but
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[SPEAKER_02]: We were able to do Junting Jubilee live there and I never expected for 6,000 people to tune in, but that's what happened.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the committee pulled together literally two weeks before Junting to put on a whole production online.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it was like, like I said, just the guys in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So again, from just calling the right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: to get stuff together in two weeks for 2020.
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[SPEAKER_02]: In the 21, we work with the Avenue of Fashion Business Association to bring it to Avenue of Fashion for three years, and then the outpour of multiple community partners there, and then we went to Joseph Walker Williams.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the year after that, and we also work with MBBA when we were at Eastern Market, so it's like I said, each partner has brought something different to the table and we've been able to put our piece and amplify it there too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And what's the people expect from a June team, Jubilee, so this year is going to be two days and during the two days, what type of activations do you have going on?
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[SPEAKER_02]: summer everything for everybody and when I said I literally mean it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All Friday, to your team, we're going to do the liberation link up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so that's going to be like an interactive networking party of sorts, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the patrons there will be able to
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[SPEAKER_02]: interact with various black artists and the black artist is going to be like partying in an art museum, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the black artists will have stations set up and there's three different categories.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the patient's therapy will interact with the artists, they'll have some small bites, music, they'll get the network, key key of things, dance, and then as they're interacting with the artists and as more fluid, they can vote on who they think deserves.
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[SPEAKER_02]: one of the three grants.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we'll be giving grants to three different categories.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So let's root some rise in that 3D art for any multi-media art.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Threads of freedom, which is fashion, and then of voices on canvas.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the whole thing is that every Juneteenth Jubilee celebration has included art in some form or fashion because we believe that that also is a representation of freedom and when people try to silence us, we use different means like music as well as art to explore and share our stories.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's Friday and then Saturday literally something for everybody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to be
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[SPEAKER_02]: That historically is a black business district that was affected, of course, by the rebellion.
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[SPEAKER_02]: However, the city has poured in millions of dollars with the strategic neighborhood funds, and it still needs a little bit more...
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[SPEAKER_02]: interests over there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And when I say that, the community doesn't know what to activate unless you build a culture over there and culture builds capital, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, given the partnership with Debeca, which is the Dexter Business Emergence Community Association,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Plus Terras Willis of Africa's town, who was also a BLD member and the recipient, who was also paid his loan off, but he's also a developer, and you own like a lot of Dexter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So when you think about that again, just the opportunity to economically for our people.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So when you take all the history and and body that we're going to do three different activations on Dexter.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So from Davidson down to the Helen Moore Center,
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[SPEAKER_02]: or Elmhurst, Elmhurst, so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You shouldn't have lock off, shutting the street off?
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, we couldn't, cause we wouldn't allow us to reroute the bus.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, fair enough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's for bus.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That, that used to give me children from school.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I know how important that is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I give you, I'm like, drop them off of doing things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But do you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Needless to say, like I respect these.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So at the pop-up space where it's closer to Dexter and Davidson, it's going to be like a wellness area.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So to be yoga, a sample, jazz, like some real vibes over there, and wellness.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Then you come to Dexter and like Richmond and Portland, like in between there, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's where the main stage is going to be.
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[SPEAKER_02]: going to be some vending, some resource and retail vendors, it'll be the mobile museum, so you can go in and learn some might or so, mobile museum, retail and resource vendors, a main stage that we have entertainment, a Greek stroll off, a couple panels on there, some poetry, so it'll be a whole bunch of stuff on a main stage, along with a few full truts,
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be a classic car show, low showcase, excuse me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So classic car showcase, and honor of Ed Davis, who was the first African American owner of a big three, a little new auto dealership.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it was on the extra.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's what the classic car show case is about.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Then you go down a few more steps at the Hemomore Center and it's going to be the kid song.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it'll be Nike games there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It'll be so if you didn't know the Nike community store comes out and they do community service and they do games with the scholars.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's a good time every time, so it would be games there, community games, a drone, like a flight simulation, just, it would be a braider there, somebody's volunteer, a braider.
23:31
[SPEAKER_02]: It's my dorm, right?
23:32
[SPEAKER_02]: It's my dorm, right?
23:33
[SPEAKER_02]: It's my dorm, right?
23:34
[SPEAKER_02]: It's my dorm, right?
23:35
[SPEAKER_02]: It's my dorm, right?
23:36
[SPEAKER_02]: It's my dorm, right?
23:36
[SPEAKER_02]: It's my dorm.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Go for it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So if you give me they are ready to pull up a lot for free.
23:43
[SPEAKER_02]: What?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, on June 20.
23:45
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
23:46
[SPEAKER_02]: Let them pull up a lot of their hair clings.
23:47
[SPEAKER_02]: She will get them together.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Even if they are not saying, I'm going to give you a cute laugh.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's up here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So she will be braiding here for the love.
23:56
[SPEAKER_02]: And then we have the color and music on there doing a craft table.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So let me all tie to things for the scholars there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So this is something for everybody on the
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[SPEAKER_01]: Amazing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What was the so how did you come to the decision in terms of doing on next?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know you mentioned the which I didn't know I lived in that area in high school, but I didn't know that that corridor was a black business hub prior to the the riots that had happened.
24:20
[SPEAKER_01]: So, how did you all land on that spot in the city?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Granite, you know, you were at the riverfront before, and now, and then, Avenue of Fashon prior to, and now, Dexter, which, like you said, it is definitely underrepresented area, and a space that I would say people probably take for Granite.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I used to be able to do a lot of things over there growing up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I went right on that on deckstripe.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I used to get my hair cut, used to go to grocery store, all types of stuff, like on that strip.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we love to know how you landed on going there.
24:51
[SPEAKER_02]: So honestly, through Casey, who was also on the committee.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I met Casey while we were doing Juneteenth on Levernoi.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so she was like, hey, have y'all thought about activating Dexter, because when I tell you Casey is 10 toes down for Dexter, she is 10 toes down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, I love that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's the thing too when you think about to your point.
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[SPEAKER_02]: being able to activate different spaces because we've been east, west, portion of southwest if you want to count court count, you know, I don't, I'm lying, I don't have a court count.
25:24
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's not say it, right?
25:25
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you like?
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, well, we haven't been here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's one time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: One was one time.
25:31
[SPEAKER_02]: So we have been east, west, mid, town is, court town is, you know, um, but the beautiful thing about Detroit is that
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're all Detroiters, but we have so much pride in our neighborhoods.
25:43
[SPEAKER_02]: So with that, Casey is a representation of that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She was like, hey, have y'all thought about coming to the extra.
25:49
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, we had it.
25:51
[SPEAKER_02]: But once I got screwed on everything as well, I was like, okay, this makes sense to me.
25:56
[SPEAKER_02]: and the entire swillist as well was a motivating factor with it.
25:59
[SPEAKER_02]: When he was like, hey, you all can activate the land, and I know a developer next to with the owns the other plot of land.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because the whole thing is, you know, it's different ramifications when you own private land versus city land.
26:10
[SPEAKER_02]: So I didn't know it was just many black developers that had bought up land and space on the extra.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So if somebody say, hey,
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll sponsor the land and that will be your canvas.
26:22
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, well, this sounds perfect to be in our cell.
26:25
[SPEAKER_02]: That's pretty much how I happened.
26:27
[SPEAKER_02]: So, Territz and Casey and the alignment.
26:30
[SPEAKER_02]: And so, Territz has a whole vision for Dexter and recreating Africa's how in that space.
26:36
[SPEAKER_02]: So, like I said, you build a cluster that builds community and capital and investment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: fire.
26:42
[SPEAKER_01]: And then do you know any of the like historical kind of takes of that particular area?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like the first black owned bookstore was over there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Really?
26:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Ons bookstore.
26:53
[SPEAKER_02]: So, um, and then like I said, just a number of businesses in addition to, of course, the black churches that made history there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then it's also called Malcolm X Boulevard, just off the street.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The fact that a lot of, and it's a free hand to street over there, that I didn't even know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know about Malcolm X Boulevard,
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[SPEAKER_02]: But they actually, so we're Helen Morris, it's a friend half industry, they renamed the street.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So even down to the street size, it's got black history.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, Dexter used to be a place for black businesses, of course, community.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then lastly, there were civil rights activists that used to be kicking it on Dexter, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, when you think about the history of everything, it just makes sense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
27:36
[SPEAKER_01]: So, how can people tap in if they want to get?
27:38
[SPEAKER_01]: They want to be a part of the Juneteenth Jubilee.
27:41
[SPEAKER_02]: So they can, well, I mean, come on, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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[SPEAKER_02]: Jubilee, D-E-T, capital D-T, that come to find out what's going on in register, or even sign up for our newsletter, or they can follow us on Instagram, we now have a TikTok, the grudging leave, but it's hard to get up to date, like okay girl, but they follow us on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, so that's how people can get involved, come, come show up, pull up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Perfect.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know if I asked you this the last time, but prior to Juneteenth Jubilee, what was your personal connection to the day?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Does the nifkins of it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What it meant to you that you celebrated for real prior to?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What was your journey with Juneteenth prior to development?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Juneteenth Jubilee?
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, honestly, I did not celebrate it before hand.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I wasn't foreign to it because I grew up in a household where knowing my history was very much so important.
28:51
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was just interesting to me because somebody had asked, like, sure, how do you integrate blackness in the upbringing of your children?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, this was such a little bit question.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But when I think about what my mother did and even my dad, like, my dad helped me very accountable for my blackness.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Even to the point where if I had too many different, I mean too many lighter shades of friends, it would be like, hey, what you want?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm not, I'm not even holding it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was making sure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was very much so interesting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But in regards to my mother, it was just interwoven and everything we did.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like we read it, books together.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_02]: We watched Black movies together.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like she bought Black dolls.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like so being Black was just always intertwined with who I was, so I knew a lot before I even got to this point.
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[SPEAKER_02]: but the support of my family and my friends and just everybody who's poured into me in general is the only reason why I even felt empowered in any way to be like, I can actually do this, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, because there's one thing to think about something, it's another thing to have people behind you to help you do it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so that's, again, just the blessings of it all also prior to, I'm not going to lie and say, I did celebrate it, but did I know about it very much?
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[SPEAKER_01]: same thing for me, I learned about it in college at Michigan, and it was they had some organizations kind of did some type of some scale of celebration, but also it was in the summer, so people weren't really around, but that was my only interaction or understanding of it, and I didn't start actually celebrating it until
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[SPEAKER_01]: years later, maybe like late 2010s somewhere around there, maybe more intentional about making sure that I celebrated.
30:37
[SPEAKER_01]: So kind of like some of my personal traditions is that day I make sure I go to a black owned business, at least one, and make sure that I spend money with them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I try to attend an event if there's something that's
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[SPEAKER_01]: going on now the opportunity to go there or do whatever's going on on the weekend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So try to make sure I spend my money with my people and then also spend my time with my people on that day as well.
30:59
[SPEAKER_01]: How what does the journey look like in terms of because I know you got an education background, but like kind of bringing people along the June team journey with you because like I know you say you got a functional knowledge of it, but wasn't really celebrating but now you're immersed in becoming a staple in how Detroit celebrated.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How have you brought people along that journey with you?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we're going to ask the likes of community or just in general.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was saying the community could be like personal connections.
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[SPEAKER_02]: be honest, like I said, putting a call out and the committee joining, that's pretty much what has activated community.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the partnerships, but one thing I learned from being an educator is that everything is not for everybody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so I can't force anybody who is not down for the calls and I'm not trying to, right?
31:45
[SPEAKER_02]: You're like, I don't want to be anybody over the hit so that they can celebrate something that's meaning for them, especially if we share
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, but I say that to saying another thing I learned in college is that you will always find your people.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, and when I say that, if you like celebrating black culture and history and you want your nurse stuff, join me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If you like some of the other facets of the committee brings to the table, then join them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, the whole thing is that's why I say it's something for everybody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like,
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[SPEAKER_02]: So if you like cars, pull us.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If you like yoga and solvable and wellness and jazz, pull up, like you like intricate conversations and learning about health, wealth and finances, again, pull up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You want to play with your kids.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Pull up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Some very body, so yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this might be a bit of a redundant question, but wow.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're looking at the clock, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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[SPEAKER_01]: whatever that looked like us, some skin folk, not skin folk, but then also people who are made not just not know enough about it or people who are like us and and intensity celebrated, but why is it important to be able to continue that celebration because it's a lot of people that's of the thought that that's so far behind us in terms of like what I had.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In terms of you know how it came about, but yeah,
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's really funny to me because people say that whole narrative like that was 400 years ago like, no, I don't know where people get this narration from because it was like 200 years of enslavement, you know what I mean.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then after that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Matthew y'all for the yeah, yeah, so it's just like when you really think about it We're like the 160 years removed.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's the lifespan of 280 roads, you know, and then I don't know about job My great grandma was 99 so she very much so it was like yeah, so I'm bringing all that up to say So many different ethnicities and cultures don't forget
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[SPEAKER_02]: and they acknowledge it through celebration.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So one, I think that's the primary reason to celebrate because it is the oldest holiday commemorating the end of enslavement, which is something that people try to brush under the rug and make it seem like we should stop celebrating or acknowledging the fact that this was a part of American history.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And unfortunately, has been
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[SPEAKER_02]: intertwined in so many different aspects and facets of where we are today on both a good and a bad side and when I say good meaning like looking at the resilience of our people and how no matter what barriers try to stop us it did not and we just keep growing and we keep advancing and we keep showing up under any type of odds or
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[SPEAKER_02]: you know, opposition.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So when you think about that, like it's power in it, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So again, that's the main reason why I think people should celebrate because again, why should we forget what other cultures don't, you know, like tell somebody else to forget their heritage, and you will be sued.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So what I'm saying is when you think about the collective power that we have, it's important to keep reminding people where we come from and how we should move as a unit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And by default, the celebration brings the people there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then if you can plant the seeds while the people are there, they'll at least take something from it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So you get the bees with the honey and then you drop the knowledge while they're there.
35:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
35:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you think that it becomes harder to maintain these traditions and the heritage behind it and message behind it in a world where I believe when we initially had our conversation when you first came on the podcast, we were, that was what maybe 23, 24.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we were kind of we were like exiting that that initial rush of like the whole DIA craze and that was starting to start in the phase out a little bit We're in 2020 everybody's like gym team everything do teams party plates and that's it Yeah, we we we down with a
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody wants to celebrate the 19th and then that started to phase out and then now to where we are and where, you know, some people are scared to even bring it up or can't even mention that they may support it or like got to be silent sponsors or things of certain things stuff like that doesn't become harder to be able to continue to push those or that have the inverse effect and make it more significant and stronger.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna say, again, you know who your people were.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And when I say my people, I'm not just talking about, like again, phenotype, I'm talking about anybody who understands, like, you know, to celebrate blackness is good for everybody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and just on a very basic levels because unfortunately you can only go so far in regards to the means of production.
37:29
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's like black people win literally everybody wins, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because our dollars help the economy and so many different facets.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, billions.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Billions, okay?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the whole thing is if you pour into a Juneteenth or sponsor it, guess what?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Black people will
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[SPEAKER_02]: in, in congruence with them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And guess what?
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[SPEAKER_02]: They will then spend their money or invest their money or put their money in your bank or wherever it may be, you know, and that's literally how it works.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm just saying that because you can follow the numbers and the data to see that that is true.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because, for example,
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[SPEAKER_02]: even if you don't want to go back to the civil rights movement and how that economic impact change the world, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: But we want to bring it just on something very basic levels.
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[SPEAKER_02]: girl strip black Panther and get out all came out within the same year each other.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They saw those numbers in regards to the money and how much the box office got and guess who started putting black mermaids and movies.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Guess who started rewriting purge to have a black character.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I can saw the change just from the money.
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[SPEAKER_02]: with that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
38:47
[SPEAKER_02]: And then to even with the whole Colin Kaepernick thing, why people was like, Oh, Nike endorse you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to buy more Nike or I'm going to invest in Nike.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the whole thing is again, I'm not going to say it's been harder or had the inverse effect.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just saying that at the end of the day, your people are going to sponsor you regardless.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So shout out to our sponsors.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know, I don't have the, we'll likely do trade, of course, investe trade is a sponsor credit union one mayor girl conservancy, there we go, a lot of sponsors trying to think I'm, I know I'm missing somebody, anyway, it'll be a whole list and I'm back at a t-shirt.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So let's say a shout out to our sponsors.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We have a lot of incline.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's well as monetary sponsors.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, there we go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: phenomenal.
39:42
[SPEAKER_01]: So speaking of sponsors, black leaders of Detroit, you had mention is a sponsor of the weekend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so tell us about what the latest and greatest with BOD and what's going on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Every time I'm running the people as a member myself, make sure it's all going to spend at $52 to become a member for the year, so only a dollar a week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just quick promo at, but.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Being a member of every chance I get to talk to people about BOD, I make sure that I let them know about the significance of what it is that you're doing and the different things that you have going on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But with love for people to get an understanding of what's happening right now and what's on the horizon and what's going on with BOD that they should look out for.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So after June 10th, and again, we have a little bit of a ride built in the Juneteenth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Of course, just to kind of get people warmed up, but we're doing the rye for unity and August.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, then we have the Detroit business symposium, which will be celebrating businesses and it'll be like a whole little event with grants.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, then we have more money where impact, where we share what we know with multiple
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[SPEAKER_02]: So if you're trying to grow your nonprofit certain nonprofit that's that then we do black Friday So that's what I said last part of year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna be back to it But black Friday where we give out gift cards to people to shop black on black Friday You do have a come home.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was doing the bus tour
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's why you need to feel free to join a bus tour, Sharia.
41:20
[SPEAKER_02]: You need to bring the bus.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Miss Jonti.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You need to bring the bus.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You need to bring the bus to the black.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't understand why you won't make it make sense for your patient.
41:28
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna figure it out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I got way more time to come up the road.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Black Friday, pull up at the time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then all your people get off the bus go shopping.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it just makes privacy sense.
41:40
[SPEAKER_01]: We shall see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to work something out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to take it all the way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, ready to.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Then we close out the year with the 12 days of Christmas grants.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, we got a lot coming up, but the main thing to look out for next is the ride for unity.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We will be activating Detroit by riding our bikes around the city.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, we're literally moving for our movement, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm excited about that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then we also have the speak for yourself, which will be taking place during that weekend.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, you can raise people out, you might need to facilitate, but they need to, um, so yes, speak for yourself is where we're going to bring some of the different communities around Detroit together.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we could talk about what does it look like to be a good neighbor, you know, and then too, just in the spirit of acknowledging Fred Hampton.
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[SPEAKER_02]: you know that was where he was very much on instrumental like he brought multiple groups together because we all unfortunately have a shared history living in a um society that has been
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[SPEAKER_02]: infiltrate it by others, you know, and so with that when you think about the commonalities amongst people in the shared histories that a lot of us have is important to see the commonalities more than anything now than the differences.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, so I'm looking forward to how speak for yourself goals because I don't think a lot of people realize because we operate so segregated
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[SPEAKER_02]: that want to get together and want to just, you know, clear to air and talk about some of these things like, you mentioned D.I.
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[SPEAKER_02]: because I didn't just affect black people, that affected so many other groups of people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then too, when you just think about it historically, the civil rights movement opened up the door for some of everybody.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, so let's just keep it a book.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, um, but yeah, so I'm looking for it really
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, because for you, Hamza's birthday is on August 30th, but so, you know, just bringing it all together.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Fish show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What is the, um, what is for Hamza's significance to Detroit?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cause I know as you mentioned, um, that he has a street named after him, off a Dexter, and so I'm curious cause I know Chicago, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was Chicago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what was this connection to Detroit?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why I didn't street after for a house to be honest.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's the more research to be, to be real with you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But given the influence and of course to me, it's less that's going to be my assumption.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But to be honest, I haven't researched why they named it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and then the other time to say to you or just that that might be it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, that's a great question.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, yeah, we'll take that off my mind too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But that's a good question though.
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[SPEAKER_02]: OK. YouTube be smart.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do what I can, you know, it's the Michigan Educational.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, uh, it's like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, it's gonna be, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, what's next for Sharia?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you have going on in a horizon?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What's some things you can tell us about that you're working on outside of Junting Jubilee, BOD, anything that you got in the cars and the works?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, you know, really just working on being a better person every day I have.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I just found this man and then I'm like, oh, good to see you bring it right, bring it joy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, we'll see how many, how many pockets there were you laugh like the chuckles over here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But, um,
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, uh, and I honestly like I like I said before it's just whatever guy has for me because every time I think I have something figured out I don't you know, um, and I am perfectly fine with Just relinquishing that because I haven't been lit anywhere that wasn't supposed to be yet You know, and it's even a blessing to be on the podcast and getting to know you because like
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[SPEAKER_02]: and just how everything is sort of a circle in regards to like knowing a sister and all the things so um so yeah like I say whatever guy has for me, I'm just saying yes and pray that that I can be decent while I do it yep well amen that you know like my colleague say come on yeah did you say it's a young and so yeah that's what I'm meant
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[SPEAKER_01]: for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's your rear wheel appreciate you for pulling up on Black Friday's once again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for having me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But gradually, you are welcome back any time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back on the platform for any time, but always appreciate the work that you're doing being intentional about, making sure that our community have a place to be able to celebrate us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then more importantly, that we are empowered to be ourselves and to be able to do the things that our heart desires and then being able to bring that back to the community,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, our great city of Detroit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yeah, the Detroit has always been a place of freedom for our people, so thank you for having me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks for asking some good questions.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I should have said some of them were good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: See now I've got to be a major band on the podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: getting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But no, you actually gave me something to think about now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I got a research.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, but no, thank you for real for having me, bro.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I care for you like my own little brother because I couldn't help it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like you just kept showing us a favor.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I'm actually related like good thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, appreciate you once again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody watch and listen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to tap in with y'all song.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Peace.