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Transcript
- Najah: I don't like when people use their title to justify being a messed up person. Because I don't care about your title. you very well can be an educated fool. You could be an A-list celebrity and a grade A butthole. Your last name could carry weight and you still could be dead wrong. CEO, doctor, pastor, celebrity, somebody's mama, somebody's daddy, the oldest in the family, okay, and People carry titles like they badges of honor. the title itself is supposed to make me overlook the person wearing it. I don't. I pay attention to how you treat people that you think are beneath you. And how you treat somebody who can't do nothing for you. And how you treat somebody when there's nothing for you to gain. That tells me who you are. And I think far too many people are afraid to stand alone. They want that sense of belonging so bad that they'll conform. They'll excuse behavior that they know is wrong because somebody has a title, money. Some influence or name people recognize. Couldn't be me, baby. I promise you it'll be me all by myself. before I start deciding how much respect someone deserves... Based on what becomes before or after they name. eventually every title gets left right here. And when they put us in a grave, we gonna be all by ourselves too. So y'all better start learning how to stand alone and stop treating people like a title that they can't take with them. Because one thing that life guarantees Is that grave only got room for one anyway?