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INTERVIEW: Deon Cole, Derrick Johnson & Louis Carr Talk NAACP Awards, Accountability, Community + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Hold up every day. Up we click your ass up
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  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club finish for y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Done morning everybody in the j n V. Jess hilarious,
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  Speaker 2: Charlamagne the guy, we are the Breakfast Club lawl of
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  Speaker 2: Roses here with us as well. We got some special
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  Speaker 2: guest in the villain. Yes, indeed you got the good brother,
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  Speaker 2: Dion Cole.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: We have Derek Johnson, President of the NAACP, Welcome back brother,
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. And we have the president of b E. T. E.
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  Speaker 2: Lewis Carl Welcome brother. How y'all feeling this morning?
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  Speaker 3: Man? Great?
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  Speaker 4: Great, you're running around for the fifty seventh n Double
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  Speaker 4: A c P Image Awards.
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  Speaker 3: Be et.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, how did that feel?
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  Speaker 6: It's gonna be great, man, It's gonna be good. We're
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  Speaker 6: gonna be doing that thing, you know, another year, another blessing.
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  Speaker 5: You know, like I'm just here so I don't get fine.
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  Speaker 1: Again. What was so good about?
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  Speaker 7: Bon said, it's funny, He's good. It was a lively show.
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  Speaker 7: And it's important to have some continuity. I mean, we
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  Speaker 7: had Anthony Anderson, what six seven years, we had the
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  Speaker 7: Queen unfortunately din'tet it the next year and Dion to
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  Speaker 7: stepped in and it's been a great show. It.
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  Speaker 4: Congratulations to you, Lewis car Man. You know he can't
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  Speaker 4: ignore the elephant in the room, Sutar guy Scott Mills.
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  Speaker 4: But you know he's no longer the president of BT.
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  Speaker 5: You are now, how does that feel?
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  Speaker 8: It's amazing. Okay, it's been a hell of a journey
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  Speaker 8: and it's a privilege. It's a big job and we're
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  Speaker 8: just trying to take BT to the next era. We
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  Speaker 8: call it the New Era, and it's exciting, but it's
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  Speaker 8: a privilege.
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  Speaker 4: What does modernizing BT actually mean to you? Is it
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  Speaker 4: about platform? Is it about programming? Is it about mindset?
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  Speaker 8: It's about all of that, and it's about community and culture.
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  Speaker 8: I don't think any brand that is serving black people
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  Speaker 8: right now, they have to lean into the community, especially
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  Speaker 8: what's going on in our country right now, whether it's political,
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  Speaker 8: whether it's economic. So we're going to lean into community.
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  Speaker 8: And we were built on culture at the end of
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  Speaker 8: the day, so we're going to be one of the
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  Speaker 8: drivers of culture and holding it up and continue. And
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  Speaker 8: that's why we are in partnership with the NAACP and
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  Speaker 8: my homeboy Dion Cole. This is my homeboy, so it's
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  Speaker 8: a real privilege to me.
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  Speaker 2: What's your first initiative besides this? Of course, what's the
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  Speaker 2: first initiative that BET wants to do with you being
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  Speaker 2: the new president?
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  Speaker 8: My first initiative is re establishing BT is the brand
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  Speaker 8: that people are proud of. So the first thing I've
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  Speaker 8: done is we have an internal slogan that may go
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  Speaker 8: publics and so I'm gonna say it right now. BT
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  Speaker 8: is something you can believe in. We really want people
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  Speaker 8: to sort of gravitate and understand that they do have
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  Speaker 8: some ownership in this, They do have some responsibility in
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  Speaker 8: this because we serve the culture and we serve our community.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think that was lost?
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  Speaker 3: If you do?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I remember as a kid, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think everybody would come on from school, You're turning on BT,
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  Speaker 2: and not just for one O six and Parking O shows,
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  Speaker 2: but there's so many shows around the realm that people
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  Speaker 2: would love about BT. And I think we lost that
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. It didn't become ours anymore. So what
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  Speaker 2: what do you think the reason is that we got
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  Speaker 2: away from that?
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  Speaker 8: I think technology. I think there was a disruption in technology.
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  Speaker 8: You know, we were primarily a cable brand at that
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  Speaker 8: particular time, and you know, whether it is the Internet
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  Speaker 8: or whether it's streaming, it's sort of interrupted everything that
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  Speaker 8: we were doing. So now we've got to sort of
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  Speaker 8: change our ways and really become more focused on the
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  Speaker 8: consumer and where the consumer is not just a cable brand.
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  Speaker 4: And Louis you come from a background in adveratis yes, right,
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  Speaker 4: and brand relationships. How do you planning the leverage adveratisers
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  Speaker 4: basically get that money right? And how do you plan
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  Speaker 4: the leverage advertisers and brand partners without I guess compromising
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  Speaker 4: the authenticity for black storytellers.
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  Speaker 8: Well, one of the things that I think we have
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  Speaker 8: to understand is what advertisers are looking for and then
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  Speaker 8: understand where our audience is and how we sort of
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  Speaker 8: partner to make it work for both places. So that's
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  Speaker 8: something I've done constantly. The NAACP Immage will Wards is
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  Speaker 8: a great example. You'll see integrations in that show in
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  Speaker 8: a very very special and unique way. So I think
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  Speaker 8: I got that down.
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  Speaker 5: How a y'all still paying for the NAACP Wars Award
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  Speaker 5: shows is what I'm saying, awards is still.
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  Speaker 1: I think thea A CP fifty seven years. We do
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  Speaker 1: have a formula. We have been on air, we will
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  Speaker 1: continue to be on there.
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  Speaker 7: In fact, we've expanded to an NAACP Immature Wars week.
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  Speaker 1: We start off for the golf tournament.
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  Speaker 7: We have a fashion show, We do all the things
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  Speaker 7: that really highlight black excellence. We can no longer sit
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  Speaker 7: back and react to what other platforms do against us
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  Speaker 7: and not include us. We got to invest in our
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  Speaker 7: own and as an organization, we have invested and we
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  Speaker 7: continue to have the show year after year.
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  Speaker 2: This year's theme is we see you break that down
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  Speaker 2: a little bit.
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  Speaker 7: But this current political climate is one in which they're
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  Speaker 7: trying to erase who we are as a culture, as
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  Speaker 7: a people, and so we have to see ourselves. What
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  Speaker 7: frustrates to me more than anything else, says we are
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  Speaker 7: caring about what the oscars say about us and who
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  Speaker 7: the Grammy included did include.
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  Speaker 1: We got to invest in our own.
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  Speaker 7: We have to see ourselves and speak from a surplus
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  Speaker 7: mindset and get away from cared about well white folks
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  Speaker 7: who don't care about us anywhere, what they're saying, what
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  Speaker 7: they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: When we have our own, does it bother you at
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  Speaker 2: any when you see as a lot of these celebrities
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  Speaker 2: go to those other award shows but don't come to
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  Speaker 2: the home shows. Does that bother you any.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you know it bothers me, But it don't because
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  Speaker 7: then they get in trouble. Did they come back and say, Hey,
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  Speaker 7: I'm an HBCU graduate. There's nothing better than our black
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  Speaker 7: cottages to glue cottage because only even with five of us,
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  Speaker 7: we all know each other, right, were not like Hampton.
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  Speaker 7: We all know right in Mississippi. But if we invest
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  Speaker 7: in our on our schools become better. I'm in the
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  Speaker 7: middle of a book now by Nakrumer. He went to
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  Speaker 7: Lincoln and his experience at Lincoln allowed him to be
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  Speaker 7: become the first president of Ghana. Why because Third Good
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  Speaker 7: Marshall was there. He ran across Ralph Ellison. He had
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  Speaker 7: all of the integration of black intelligence, not only in
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  Speaker 7: the United States but globally.
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  Speaker 1: We have to do the same thing for our platform.
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  Speaker 9: Were you guys when you announced BT When you guys
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  Speaker 9: announced that you're going to step it away from those
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  Speaker 9: other war shows, and I remember, like the messaging got
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  Speaker 9: a little bit lost where some things are going to
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  Speaker 9: go to digital, right, So it's not fully out of it.
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  Speaker 9: But were you guys nervous about adding negatively to that
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  Speaker 9: conversation of BT's decline when you decided to make that decision.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely, And I think we sat there on pause, so
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  Speaker 8: it may be something different coming soon. So just stam passed.
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  Speaker 8: So they're not gone, they just may be on pause.
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  Speaker 8: We've been in conversation about at least bringing one back
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  Speaker 8: over the last three weeks.
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  Speaker 9: You can't tell us what's want yet.
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  Speaker 5: No, I want to ask you that because you mentioned it.
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  Speaker 4: Like Trump, the Trump administration has been open about attacking DEI,
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  Speaker 4: black history, civil rights language. Is the NAACP fighting to
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  Speaker 4: preserve those games from the past or is this moment
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  Speaker 4: forcing the NAACP to completely rethink?
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  Speaker 7: Well, absolutely, fight we are in. I can't name the
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  Speaker 7: number of court cases, many of which we've already won.
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  Speaker 7: Whether it's a redistion case in Texasu'siana, Missouri, whether or
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  Speaker 7: not we put booths on the ground in California for
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  Speaker 7: the referendum, whether or not we're strategizing in Maryland and
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  Speaker 7: Virginia around that redistrict.
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  Speaker 1: And absolutely we're fighting.
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  Speaker 7: But the election have consequences and platforms like this, we
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  Speaker 7: cannot send this messages. We got to be clear that
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  Speaker 7: this November we got to turn out and vote. We
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  Speaker 7: know who the NMB are, we know how they look,
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  Speaker 7: and it's not black men is doing this or not
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  Speaker 7: doing that. It's about all black folks need to get
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  Speaker 7: out and vote because if we don't, our citizenship, our
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  Speaker 7: human essence in this country is at risk.
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  Speaker 5: Is there any way to rethink? Rethink the playbook always?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, you know, add into the conversation in a
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  Speaker 7: way in which we can reconsider things. The medium age
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  Speaker 7: of our community is thirty two years old. Things have
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  Speaker 7: already been rethought and rethought again. We are constantly evolving.
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  Speaker 7: That's why next month we're one hundred and seventeen year
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  Speaker 7: old organization. We're solving, We're strong, and we're continuing to fight.
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  Speaker 7: We have to get out of black folks saying well,
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  Speaker 7: this group isn't doing this. This group should do that
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  Speaker 7: one hell, pick up a shovel and get a scoop
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  Speaker 7: and help all of us get to where we need
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  Speaker 7: to be. Because if we're stronger as an organization, we're
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  Speaker 7: stronger as a community.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you posted something on your social media page that
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  Speaker 2: was very powerful, right. It was a half face of
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  Speaker 2: KKK plan member and half face of an ICE member.
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  Speaker 3: Break that down.
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  Speaker 7: What you mean if you understand the history of this country,
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  Speaker 7: the clan re emerging the twenties. They were able to
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  Speaker 7: re emerge through law enforcement, starting in Indiana, and they
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  Speaker 7: spread across the country. What we're seeing with the ICE
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  Speaker 7: operation now is they're recruiting white supremacists to come into
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  Speaker 7: the agency and go in and terrorize communities. Now, let's
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  Speaker 7: not be food and think it's all about the Latino community.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's us too.
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  Speaker 7: When they're in Minneapolis and they pull it over, brothers
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  Speaker 7: and sisters from Sudanese from Sudan.
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  Speaker 5: They look like us.
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  Speaker 7: They look like all of us around this table. So
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  Speaker 7: it's one group today, it's another one tomorrow, it is us.
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  Speaker 7: After that we have to stand up. So what we're
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  Speaker 7: looking at is clan activity masquerading as ICE agents.
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  Speaker 5: You know what makes you want to host the award?
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  Speaker 3: I said, black Comic, Uh.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I shouldn't be, don't I don't have
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  Speaker 6: to turn on that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know, I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be off. Whatever, man, you know what I
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  Speaker 3: love about you?
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  Speaker 7: D Man?
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  Speaker 5: Some comedians, They just get louder as they get older.
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  Speaker 5: You got shock. Was that intentional? They just like life
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  Speaker 5: script away all the noise.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I just I just don't know how the energy
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  Speaker 6: to be hollering, want a whole bunch of stuff. I
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  Speaker 6: think lessons more, you know, being more in the pocket
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  Speaker 6: when it comes to cond he is you know my
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  Speaker 6: aforte and how I get down. You know, I want
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  Speaker 6: to be heard, and I seen you could be heard softly,
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  Speaker 6: You could be heard, you know, loudly or whatever, but
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  Speaker 6: I like to just, you know, stay in the pocket
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  Speaker 6: with what I do, you know, and it keeps me
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  Speaker 6: distant from what the normans.
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  Speaker 2: They had a conversation a couple of months ago about you, Dion,
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  Speaker 2: when you were talking about Kai and we were talking
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  Speaker 2: about the younger generation and the older generation, and you
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  Speaker 2: were saying you said something to the fact that I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to misquote you, that you feel like the
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  Speaker 2: younger generation should do their homework on some of the legends,
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  Speaker 2: and we were saying that sometimes it's very difficult because
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  Speaker 2: if they don't know the individuals, it's very difficult. But
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  Speaker 2: you felt the way that he doesn't necessarily know who
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  Speaker 2: you are.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it wasn't.
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  Speaker 6: And that's what I think everybody twisted and made it
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  Speaker 6: seem like I was trying to say he didn't know
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  Speaker 6: who I was, and I said over and over again,
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  Speaker 6: I was like, I it wasn't even about me. It
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  Speaker 6: was just about him having that platform to showcase these
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  Speaker 6: icons and let his generation know who these people are.
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  Speaker 6: And I was like, you don't have to know everybody,
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  Speaker 6: because I don't know everybody. My whole thing was at
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  Speaker 6: least know the winners.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 6: If you know who won, that's good enough. You know
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  Speaker 6: what I mean, So do your homework and not just
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  Speaker 6: walk around like that. And I love that little brother.
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  Speaker 3: I think he dope. I think he is innovative and
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  Speaker 3: all of that.
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  Speaker 6: I just feel as though that with this generation nowadays,
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  Speaker 6: correct the criticism is considered.
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  Speaker 3: Hate and it's not hate. It's like, what am I
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  Speaker 3: gonna do?
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  Speaker 6: Just let you keep doing what you're gonna do and
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  Speaker 6: then let it keep getting worse and worse and worse,
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  Speaker 6: like the situations that have happened now and certain things whatever.
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  Speaker 6: So my job was to go, hey, little brother, check
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  Speaker 6: this out, do that, and everybody spent it or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: But hopefully he heard it, you know. But then a
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  Speaker 3: little bit after that, I think he was actually going
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  Speaker 3: through stuff, you know.
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  Speaker 6: What I mean, And so what I was saying was
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  Speaker 6: maybe it was something on his mind or hard or whatever.
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  Speaker 6: But I felt like I did my job by saying
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  Speaker 6: what it is, and he went to go get help
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  Speaker 6: and all of that. You get what I mean, because
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  Speaker 6: you never know what nobody's going through, so I have
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  Speaker 6: to say what I have to say and then go
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  Speaker 6: for that, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: So you know much love to that brother. I love
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  Speaker 3: that brother.
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  Speaker 2: You think it's a problem in our community. This is
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  Speaker 2: for all of y'all that we don't necessarily do the
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  Speaker 2: research of where things started from. Like if you go
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  Speaker 2: to a young rapper today, he might not know the
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  Speaker 2: first rap came from the Bronx and it came from
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  Speaker 2: this sound, or different comedians if you're in the comedy world,
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  Speaker 2: who this comedian is, how.
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  Speaker 3: They started there?
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  Speaker 2: So even radio of the first hip hop station and
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  Speaker 2: how it started. Do you feel like that's the problem
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  Speaker 2: in our community.
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  Speaker 7: I think it's an opportunity. I don't think it's a problem.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, when you're trying to build on your craft,
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  Speaker 7: you focus. You're zeroed in and you don't know when
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  Speaker 7: you're gonna hit, but once you hit, it's an opportunity
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  Speaker 7: to begin to expand, so you don't fall into the
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  Speaker 7: same potholes. One of the things we must do as
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  Speaker 7: a community is learned from past mistakes because we got
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  Speaker 7: new ones to make.
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  Speaker 1: And only way we do that is to understand. I
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  Speaker 1: like that to me right right there.
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  Speaker 5: I never thought about it.
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  Speaker 7: You know, you you learned from past mistakes because we
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  Speaker 7: got new ones, and in that moment, it gives the
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  Speaker 7: opportunity to not only perfect your craft, but to grow
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  Speaker 7: the craft. And so that's an opportunity, not a deficit.
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 9: A part of the conversation with the Kai stuff though,
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  Speaker 9: for people who are in like a learning space, is like,
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  Speaker 9: do y'all ever have a chance to have those conversations
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  Speaker 9: with him privately? Like you said, you hope you hurt
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  Speaker 9: what you said, So you guys haven't been able to
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  Speaker 9: talk in private.
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  Speaker 6: No, I haven't been able to talk to him in private.
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  Speaker 6: I would love to, but I didn't reach out because
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  Speaker 6: it was just going so banignas. I just was like, yo,
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  Speaker 6: if you want to talk here, reach out. But I
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  Speaker 6: ain't want to go, hey, this is what it meant,
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  Speaker 6: you know, but I would love to talk to that brother.
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  Speaker 3: I remember I did.
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  Speaker 6: I did something with Marlon Wayne's and Marlin said that
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  Speaker 6: he had talked to him, and uh he said he
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  Speaker 6: was like man, man called the little brother and tell
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  Speaker 6: him and tell him like you know you you you
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  Speaker 6: cool or whatever. And I never got his number whatever,
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  Speaker 6: but Marlon did talk to him, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I don't really know the outcome was. Malin was like, y'all,
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  Speaker 6: you just call him and I never did. So I
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  Speaker 6: don't have this information even reaching out on ig or whatever.
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  Speaker 6: I just didn't, but I will. I'll reach out to
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  Speaker 6: him and be like, hey, hit me up. You know,
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  Speaker 6: let's talk.
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  Speaker 10: About I love like how you always Dionne, just like
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  Speaker 10: for me knowing you always like wrap your arms around
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  Speaker 10: people or just always speak about people in a positive
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  Speaker 10: like even when those people are you know, under public
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  Speaker 10: trootingy or whatever like you had. I just seen like
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  Speaker 10: a few weeks ago you had Kanye at your show
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  Speaker 10: and how you brought him up on stage and just
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  Speaker 10: like the room just loved seeing him there and let
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  Speaker 10: me y'all from the same city.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, I love that with that.
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  Speaker 5: Did you know he was gonna be there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and shout out to my man John or not.
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  Speaker 6: John was like, man, we had me and John and
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  Speaker 6: no I d We had a dinner the night before
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  Speaker 6: with France and Yay hit up John and John was
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  Speaker 6: telling them, Man, we had a good conversation without stuff,
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  Speaker 6: and Yay was like, man, when the next time y'all
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  Speaker 6: meeting and I want to go out? There was like,
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  Speaker 6: I got to show him you want to go? And
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: he was like all my family in time for the holidays,
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: and he was like if I can bring him.
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: They hit me. I was like, yeah, tell him to
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: come through. You know how many you got? He was
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: like twenty five.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Jesus, my room is.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: Only forty seats. Bringing couches and crates and other kinds
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: of stuff.
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: But yeah, he came in and he brought in all
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: twenty five his people, his wife and everybody came in
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: and he had a great time because he needed that,
• 15:36
  Speaker 6: you know what I mean.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: It was a you know, it's a lot of weight
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: on him, you know, And when it comes to these situations,
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: I feel like like when we were dealing with one
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: of our own whatever.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: I feel like personally, we shouldn't let everybody get on him,
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: like like we can get on him. But when everybody
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: else started getting on him, we go, all right, well,
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: y'all relaxed, Yeah, we'll take care.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: Of him, you know.
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: And so it was for me to be like, come
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: on out, come, have a good time, relax your mind,
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: you know, and I go from there whatever. I wasn't
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: he supposed to bring him on, you know, bring him
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: on the stage. But I was like, forget that, you
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: have pressure.
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: I agree with that to a certain extent, but and
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: what you mean what he's saying.
• 16:17
  Speaker 10: But but.
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: He pokesed his own community.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: To get it, you know, get it. I get it.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: I get he does. But I mean, what are you
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: gonna do?
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: I just I don't want to see nobody get kicked
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: while they down, you know what I mean. And so
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: once they keep kicking while he down, it's like, all right,
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: that's that's what I mean. And they keep kicking him
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: while down.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: It's like he got the message, Yeah, quit kicking them, motherfucker.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: I'm been interested to see what his mindset is because
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: we haven't heard from him, and he's been quiet for
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: about a year.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he hits. Man, I'm telling you where he at.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: He's just like, man, I'm gonna put some music out
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: and do what I do. I'm gonna go back to
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: the essence. I'm about to make it so far, I'm
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: about to make it fun, about to get it in.
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: And that's where he got with it. He like, man,
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: I'm just gonna keep doing me and you know whatever whatever.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: But he's just chilling right now.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: I was gonna ask it, do you have any pressure
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: when you have like a Kanye at your show based
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: then a regular show with no celebrities in any pressure
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: with you will know?
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: No, not really, not not at all. Like I know
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: why they there. You know, everybody come to just ease,
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: they mind and you know the pressure.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: You know the pressure of this business or whatever. They
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: just come to get away. Like we had Paul McCartney
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: at the show.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: You know, he just wanted to come just come hang
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: out and kick it.
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: Everybody come in my room at the impriv I a
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: residency there right, It's like maybe fifty people only tops,
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: everybody phone locked up. You can come in there, have
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: a good time. Ain't nobody gonna record you. Ain't nobody
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: gonna be looking at you or whatever. You can have
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: a good time. So people know that, and so they
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: come and they're not filmed unless I'm filming them, and
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: then that's it, you know.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's a good time. We have a lot
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: of we just come through that and just to get away.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I ain't. I'm not gonna wave it the
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: way that I am. Even with Paul McCartney, I was
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: putting them in the head. I'm punching them, you know, high,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: and I want to. I don't want to get high.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: It's just us having I mean, making him feel normal,
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: you know what I mean, Like most people walk around there,
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: Sir Paul, Sir Paul, you know I'm in there, like
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: calling them pe he loved and all kinds of stuff,
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: just anything just to make them feel normal.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: Started a little bit.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I want to ask you, you know what the successful documentary,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: why does a BT do more of those documentaries? Highlight
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: now with our heroes.
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: We're looking at that, We are looking at that. The
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: new edition doc speaks for itself. It was very expensive.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: We're trying to make the money back for that because
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: I figured you did don't know, Okay, it's.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: In the movie. Right apart documentary that's a movie.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: Though that was a movie. It was all above go ahead.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Because it was a movie, but it was in partant.
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so we're looking at it figure out can we
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: do it in a more efficient way. But there are
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: many stories out there, as you know, they need to
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: be told.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: How do you evolve a tent pole event like the
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: nua A CP Awards so they feel like less nostalgic
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: and more and more like a reflection of where black
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: culture is now.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Well, I think I'm going next.
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: I think Dion is the start of that, and I
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: think the type of people that we celebrate, we honor,
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: have to be current and part of the culture right now.
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: So I think always culture has to be current. So
• 20:00
  Speaker 8: that's the evolution, and we also have to expand the distribution.
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: So you'll see a lot of stuff online this year
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: that you never saw before. So we'll be using all
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: of the platforms to sort of highlight.
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: And recognizing that we have over sixty categories only between
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: eight and ten our air life for the two hours,
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: we have a dinner where we recognize you know, social
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: media content, the whole deal. The reason why Dianna is
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: important because joint and laughter is also advocacy, you know,
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: artists advocacy. And so what most of people see is
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: a two hour live broadcast, but a week of activities,
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: you know, the golf tournament kicks off. But then the
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: real night where we get the most celebrities is the dinner.
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: And that's when we honor all the categories from literary to.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: You name it.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: And it's a part of how we have evolved as
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: an organization, how we've evolved in terms of this highlighting
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: black excellence and the entertainment industry.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Our next thing is visual arts.
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: We have black artists in black galleries, have to honor
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: them because folks are taking up our art, elevating the
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: prices and we don't even own it.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: And so we got to get to that space where
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: we own more of the content that we create.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: I have a question. You to raise your hand, excuse me,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: have a question I want to ask you. I I
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: want to put nobody on frustreet, but I do have
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: a question.
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: So I remember when when Kanye got in trouble and
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: Nick Cannon got in trouble and they talked to leaders
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: of the races Jewish community. So when people talk bad
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: about us, why isn't and there's nobody the answer to
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: why is that?
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Well, it all depends on the situation in the scenario.
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: So when Nick Cannon got into the score for Marve
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: Small who was at Paramot, right, we retally.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Started talking put together strategy. He's back on the air
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: now right.
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: When Kyrie Irving got into the issues with the with
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: the Brooklyn team here Isaiah the Times and how we
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: got on the phone. We came up with a strategy.
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: We got this agent, we got Kyrie on and we
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: began to talk about what is the pivot.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: To save his career. So it all depends on the
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: scenario and whether or not the individual is open enough
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: to reach out.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: But that wasn't the question Dion asked.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: What Dion said was when other racests do stuff to
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: offend Black people, who do they answer to?
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Who do they have to who the other races answer?
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: Because because when when we do something wrong, we have
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: to go talk to the leaders of that race.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: But why do you have to do that? You don't
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: have to do that.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: I'm just I'm just I'm only asking to.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: But it goes to the individual scenario.
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: We should be answering to anybody I understand that. So
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna go to the Kyrie Irvan Peace right. So
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: the ball back came said, we want you to go
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: to this museum, and that museum was like, but have
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: you been to the African American Museum?
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: How we're going to look at our own stuff?
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: How do we begin to react based on our narrative
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: response and not somebody else's. Too often we're reacting because
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: the team around us don't look like us. That's been
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: the problem that are far too many of these same individuals.
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: The agent ain't one of us, the manager is not us,
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: the lawyer's not us. So what happens Their advice is
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: coming from their professionals who are moving them to communities
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: that's not us. But if you have people surrounding you
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: that look like us, understand who we are, then the
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: advice you're getting becomes even more crucial. So then you
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: ask yourself when you look at individual or individual, who's
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: representing them, who's in their ear? Because far too many
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: of our high A caliber celebrities they leave us.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: I do like that question, Dion asked, though, because I
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: think people for so long have looked to the NAACP.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: I guess to be black people's version of.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Like the ADL.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: But by the way, the ADL is supposed to be
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: black people's version of the ADL, it's not. They' supposed
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: to be anti defamation for you know, black people with
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: you wish people know, But I guess that's what people
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: want the NAACP to be.
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: We can only be what people, when you get to
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: a certain status, allowed to be. Like when you talk
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: about all these folks, who's that lawyer?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Is it black?
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: A wife, who's agent, who's representing them? That becomes the
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: key because you all know this game much better than
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: I do. In the isolation of the controversy, only those
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: who have the ear are able to inform on how
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: the move. I'm not gonna mention one particular form of
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: professional football player. We reached out his team knew, didn't
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: even know who we were, and so we're trying to help,
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: but the team don't even know who we are, so
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: he can't come to us because he's all of twenty
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: three years old, and then his whole team it doesn't
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: look like us don't understand the nature of what we do.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: And we still have yet to see this brother at
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: a black event.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: But I think that it should be publicized. And I.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: Think this should be publicized because it gives people and
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: it makes people think like there is a consequence with
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: what you say, because there it's never.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Publicized that people.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: It's not like somebody can go on blackface or say
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: something bad and then they come over and they go
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: and they see them sitting down with you talking and
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: and you talking to them and going, you know, this
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: is what you need to do.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: This, this is the forgiving them and all the rest
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: of that.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: We never see that, we see them, but we see
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: that has happened a couple of times.
• 25:34
  Speaker 9: I remember Jimmy Foulon.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Situation, Jimmy Fallon after that, we don't remember that. It
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: was comments he made on the air I'm.
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: Not ala situation. Yeah, there was like a photo. There's
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: a whole list of people that have had to come
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: to you guys and apologize and have conversations.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: But it goes to the Kayak example.
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: Are we inform women and are young entertainers hell our
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: peers about their representation. We're giving our money away. I
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: just heard a narrative of our prints. Someone wanted to
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: do his cover of song. He says, I'm not gonna
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: let you do that because you don't own the rights
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: of your son. I refuse to pay for these folks
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: grandkids to go to college off of my material. The
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: real question for the celebrity community are we allowing ourselves
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: to be pimped as we masquerade in blackface? Because oftentimes
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: that's what's happening. BT is a much stronger entity if
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: more of our folks invest in it, and ACP is
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: a stronger advocate if more of our folks invest in it.
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: My membership roster, those who support me are everyday working people.
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: That's a beautiful thing. That's who we represent. But we
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: have to be honest about this conversation. Three hundred and
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: sixty degrees. Are we investing in our young people who've
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: gone to law school, who are ad agencies, who can
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: actually do the thing, and making sure we're repped by them.
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: I have a question, so, and it's going back to
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: what you said about with Nick Cannon and not Colin Kaepernick,
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: Kyrie Irving. You said, why do you think that we
• 27:11
  Speaker 9: have to go and apologize?
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 27:13
  Speaker 9: So when people come to you guys to have those conversations,
• 27:16
  Speaker 9: to apologize, to do the whole dance in the tour
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: why do you guys entertain the conversation if there are
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: leaders like you in the NAACP who feel that way,
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: because I know Morgan Waland did the same thing as
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: well too.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Well, First of all, we.
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: Have to understand the historical nature so we don't offend people,
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: whether you black, white, male, female, or whatever the case
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: may be. And there are certain scenarios where we make mistakes.
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: People make mistakes, and how do you get from under
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: that when you are when you are actually relying on
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: the public for your support. So sometimes you do apologize
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: because if I made an offensive comment towards black women,
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: y'all to be upside my head, I do need to
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: pivot and apologize because if I made that mistake, But
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: in doing so, you need to do it in a
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: way in which you're not demeaning yourself, that you're not
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: portraying the essence of who you are, and you can
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: be honest that I made this mistake, you know, er
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: learn from it and move forward. So sometimes you do
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: have we do need to apologize. But if you got
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: a team that surrounded you that is not from our community,
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: what happens there is you don't know who to apologize to. Properly,
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: and you don't know what the apology look like. And
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: then you have people saying you gotta apologize, Plus you
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: gotta donate to this thing over here, give money to
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: that thing over there.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Just some people that ain't gonna like you for the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: rest and to need that check. You don't see that
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: this museum when Hampton needs that check or Howard needs
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: that check.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: That's interesting. You know, there's always criticism that BET isn't
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: black owned. So so how do you balance BET being
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: part of a large corporate instructure while still serving as
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: a platform for black voices.
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: Well, one of the I think, dirty little secret. It's
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: not black owned, but it is black run. It's about
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: ninety some percent of the people who run BET look
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: like us. Uh. They come from our communities that have
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: done extremely well. One of the things that I want
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: to do, and I said this or the first week
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: on the job, is really highlight the people who run
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: be ET. We have some very strong, intelligent people who
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: run be ET. And you usual only know that one
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: face or two faces that are at the company. There's
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: a team of leadership there that I think really our
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: community needs to know and our community needs to engage
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: with hey.
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: With the new shows and stuff when they come back,
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: can you make sure everybody hairline ain't super crispy on show?
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Not that's what people want. Risty, you've been caged.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: You've been caged for three.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Weeks for a beer. But crispy hairlins, hairlines of normal.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: I want to give you the opportunity to teach to
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: deck because people like to say the NAACP was started
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: by white folks.
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: So in nineteen o nine, people who we think are
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: who we see as white today, they.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Were not considered white in nineteen o nine.
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: Jewish people were not considered white in nineteen o nine,
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: nor was Italian Catholics. The nac people was created by
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: a set of individuals who were othered. They were not
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: a part of the main stream. It wasn't until the
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: late twenties, thirties and then after World War Two that
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: people we see now as white are considered white.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: And so this concept that ACP.
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: Will started by white folks, No we will, started by
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: a group of people who were other not be very clear.
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: Black folks created inn ACP with the Niagara Movement with W. B.
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: De Boys, Id B. Wells, William Roy Trotter. They came
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: to a meeting that next year as a result of
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: a racial incident that happened in Spring for of the Noise,
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: and they agreed collectively to start an organization that was
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: national scope that represent colored people across the spectrum, whether
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: you was Irish, Catholic, or Jewish or black, whatever, because
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: democracy was not being applied to all of those communities,
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: and so this fallacy that will started by white people
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: in nineteen on nine. Those folks won't consider white. They
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: only became white when it was politically expeded. If you
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: was Italian, you was not considered white. When LaGuardia got
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: elected in this city, he was not considered white. And
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: as a result, over time, the Italian community became a
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: part of the social construct of whiteness. We never will
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: because this ain't going nowhere. So we have to be
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: black to the bone and be clear and proud about
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: it through and through. But no one did us a
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: favorite in creating an organization. They was creating an organization
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: to advocate for their own security as well.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: Let's look at some of these nominees, Lauren, pull them up.
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  Speaker 5: I know we all over the place.
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  Speaker 9: Interview Outstanding motion picture highs the lowest one of them days,
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  Speaker 9: Sarah's Oil Centers, Wicked. Outstanding Documentary Being Eddie on Netflix.
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  Speaker 9: What are the category Outstanding Podcast News and Information, Outstanding Podcast,
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  Speaker 9: Life and self Help, Lifestyle and self Help, out stand
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  Speaker 9: the podcast, Society and Culture. I think I was supposed
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  Speaker 9: to be in that one. Outstanding Podcast, Arts, Sports and Entertainment,
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  Speaker 9: Outstanding Podcast, Scripted, Limited series short form. You have the
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  Speaker 9: Outstanding Gospel Christian Album, Outstanding Album out Sending Songs Solo,
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  Speaker 9: R and B, hip Hop and Rap song outstand The
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  Speaker 9: Variety Series are Special, Outstanding Children's Program, out Standing New
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  Speaker 9: Artists out Send e Mail Artists, Female Artists, Entertainer of
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  Speaker 9: the Year. Tanna Taylor is also in that category too.
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  Speaker 9: The San p Ribo and do Chi, Kendrick Lamar, Michael B. Jordan,
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  Speaker 9: i'll Standing Comedy Series. I'LL Standing Drama Series, out Standing
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  Speaker 9: News Information Series are Special, Outstanding talk Series, out stand
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  Speaker 9: in Reality program, Reality, competition series, Services and game shows.
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  Speaker 4: But then you didn't demand that The Funny Knowing You
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  Speaker 4: podcast get nominated.
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  Speaker 3: Podcast is blowing up, Man, Young thing Man next year,
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  Speaker 3: next year is going to be on that Man with
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  Speaker 3: your podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I just watched you sitting down with Bill Burr.
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  Speaker 5: That's also my favorite.
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  Speaker 6: Got another one coming out Wednesday, We got a Brian
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  Speaker 6: Austin Green from Wow.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna be talking about what she was saying about
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  Speaker 3: what they dated.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, you know Wednesday Wow.
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  Speaker 6: They was while they was on Martin and she said
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  Speaker 6: that she had let him go because she didn't want
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  Speaker 6: because he was sleeping so many black women, she didn't
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  Speaker 6: want to keep sleeping with him.
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  Speaker 3: And then he go be with a white girl and
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  Speaker 3: his richest with a white girl, and he was like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, she's she's like.
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  Speaker 1: About to tease.
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  Speaker 6: A little bit, a little bit and went around, wait no,
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  Speaker 6: she she said that she was like, no, I let
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  Speaker 6: him go, and uh he was like no, no, this
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  Speaker 6: is what happened.
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  Speaker 3: And he hit me up and.
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  Speaker 9: Did he post a video somewhere on social or no?
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  Speaker 9: I don't know if you okay, but that might have
• 34:27
  Speaker 9: been a fake when I saw because I thought I
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  Speaker 9: saw like a response somewhere from her.
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  Speaker 6: I think he said something like, oh I love you girl,
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: but but but he but he still he still love her.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, that was a question.
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  Speaker 5: Asked you what you're saying?
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  Speaker 1: I was asking how would have win this?
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  Speaker 3: Picked.
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  Speaker 2: How do how do people decide who to these categories?
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: So there's a first of all, you have to submit
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  Speaker 1: your content.
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  Speaker 7: There is a committee people in the industry and lay
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  Speaker 7: persons over three hundred plus people to nominate. And then
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  Speaker 7: once you are nominated, uh, you're voted on. Depending on
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  Speaker 7: the category, it could be a committee that votes on
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  Speaker 7: you of experts. So the literary committee, you have individuals
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  Speaker 7: who read a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Books, right.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the categories is is uh you know, anyone
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  Speaker 1: can vote, you know, the mask vote and other categories.
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  Speaker 7: There is another voting committee and so it's broken up
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  Speaker 7: so no one has the thumb on the scale for
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  Speaker 7: any particular product. Uh. You know, I was executive produce
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  Speaker 7: us day Time, so called Beyond the Gates. I couldn't
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  Speaker 7: have my thumb on the scale. But they got nominated
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  Speaker 7: and and I'm glad it is nominated. It is an
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  Speaker 7: opportunity for us to really appreciate our content and then
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  Speaker 7: vote on what we think is best represent our image
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  Speaker 7: and who we are as a people.
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  Speaker 3: What we need.
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  Speaker 4: We need an uncommon favor by Don Staley to win
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  Speaker 4: outstanding literary work. That's Black privilege publishing, and we need
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  Speaker 4: uh Pod to win Outstanding Podcast.
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  Speaker 5: Immediate reason choice. We need money and well for John hol'brien.
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  Speaker 4: Black Effect, that's Black Effect podcast and with Doctor j
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  Speaker 4: that's Black Effect.
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  Speaker 1: We need that to win as well.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: What else we need to win?
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: Oh and we need Kingsland to win an Outstanding Podcast,
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  Speaker 4: Scripted Limited Series that's SBA Productions and Audible Abody else.
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  Speaker 5: No, that's that's covered.
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  Speaker 2: So the show is February twenty eighth on b E T.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure you go out and watch it. And we
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  Speaker 2: appreciate you brothers for joining us this morning on.
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  Speaker 3: CBS and.
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  Speaker 5: Y'all show about that. CBS doesn't have some changes.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure about that.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: And in fact, why don't the Breakfast Club come out
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  Speaker 1: and air from there? We stop? We kick off on
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Tuesday with a golf tournament. We're doing something every day,
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  Speaker 1: come out of the air.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Why not?
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: What day is it?
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Two days? That's Saturday, But we're doing something from Tuesday
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: through Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, you know.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: What I do have one last question when you talk
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: about CVS, a lot of black people are politically exhausted.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: You heard deonce about how you know his his comedy
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: shows are an escape, like how does the NAACP re
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  Speaker 4: energize people who feel like, you know, they vote protesting
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  Speaker 4: donating like they feel like, oh again.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's like, you know, I'm exhausted from eating. There
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  Speaker 7: if I'm not gonna eat anymore and I'm gonna die
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  Speaker 7: because I don't eat. Dion is a good example, said earlier.
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: Joy and laughter is a part of advocacy, and we
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: recognize that so many of our people are consuming the
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: information from sports and comedy, so we're trying to get
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  Speaker 7: more into that space so you can be entertained but
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: also be informed. We cannot promote this concept that we're exhausted.
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: We have to just drive in the notion that if
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: we don't participate, you think things are bad now, it's.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Only going to get worse. A year ago, we didn't think.
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  Speaker 7: It was going to be this bad, and as a
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: result of some of us not participating, it was more
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: people not voting that voted in our community.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Therefore, we have to drive the notion that voting is
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: like breathing and eating.
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  Speaker 7: You must do it regardless of your fatigue, because if
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: you don't, you won't be able to.
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  Speaker 5: Breathe or eat.
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: So you have moments like I think last year y'all
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: had Vice President Kamala Harris. You know, she won an
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: award and she gave her speech. Are you gonna have
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: moments like that?
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: We're more than likely.
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: I mean, we're the NACP absolutely in between Deon Teller's
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: from great jokes.
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  Speaker 8: But I think Charlamagne to that point of exhaustion, I
• 38:19
  Speaker 8: think it's on all of us to make sure that
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: our community doesn't get exhausted. I mean, because people are
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: gonna get tired at different moments of time depending on
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: what happens in the community. So I think it's important,
• 38:30
  Speaker 8: especially those of us in the media, that we continue
• 38:33
  Speaker 8: to push and motivate and inspire people.
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: And we just launched an ACP Plus. It's a platform
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: for podcasts, short form media for that very reason. We
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: just launch a venture capital fund so we can reinvest
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  Speaker 7: in our communities at two hundred million dollars raise. We're
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: the organization that we realize that the sum total of
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: the Black experience goes beyond entertainment, goes beyond what goes
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: on to DC is everything that we do, we try
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  Speaker 7: to be in all of those spaces.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty seventh NAACP Image Awards goes down on B E,
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  Speaker 2: T N, CBS, February twenty ah d On Cole, Derreck Johnson, Lewis.
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  Speaker 1: Car thank you guys for joining us. Thank you, And
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  Speaker 1: they can vote online for these the categories. You can
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: vote online. That's correct, all right, that's right. It's the
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  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, hold.
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  Speaker 2: Every day up, wake, click your ass up, the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 1: You don't finish or y'all done,