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Vic Mensa Says The Division Between Black Americans And Africans Is Manufactured · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 2: What I really appreciate about what y'all been doing, man,
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  Speaker 2: is the presence that you're.
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  Speaker 3: Building on the continent. Man. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: It's like it's so necessary and people need to see
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  Speaker 2: it from you too. You know what I'm saying, Because
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  Speaker 2: obviously I have a voice and my own my own lane,
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  Speaker 2: but as an African that's like mixed race, and you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean, I've got ways for people.
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  Speaker 4: To discredit the situation.
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  Speaker 2: Discredit my opinion as it pertains to Black American people.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, especially in the age of FBA.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, But can we talk about that?
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  Speaker 4: I know, my bad, can we talk about that?
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  Speaker 3: Though?
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  Speaker 4: I want to hear vixed. I'm glad you brought that up,
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  Speaker 4: because Vic, if you don't know his background, his father
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  Speaker 4: is from Ghana and his mother, your mother is from America.
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  Speaker 3: Right, yeah, she's white, white America.
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  Speaker 4: So in all right, this is a very sensitive topic
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  Speaker 4: right now.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think.
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  Speaker 2: They got like hundreds of thousands of.
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  Speaker 4: Computers, but they got their first AI bods. Boy, FBA,
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  Speaker 4: don't do it? Love you? How is that for you?
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  Speaker 4: How is that for you?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's really funny. I like, I kind of
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  Speaker 3: have a good time with it. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: The division between Black American people and Black African people
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  Speaker 2: is manufactured.
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  Speaker 3: It's an agent of the state. The division between black.
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  Speaker 2: Vision, between Black American people and black African people is manufactured.
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  Speaker 3: It is an agent of the states. It's used to
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  Speaker 3: keep us.
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  Speaker 2: Divided so that we don't unify Black Americans with the
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  Speaker 2: most culturally impactful with the most impactful culture on the planet,
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  Speaker 2: with Black Africans that are the fastest growing population with
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  Speaker 2: the most resources. They don't want Black American people, the
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  Speaker 2: most culturally impactful group on planet Earth, to link up
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  Speaker 2: with the most resource rich continent, which, as you guys
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  Speaker 2: obviously know, is the only place where the birth rates
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  Speaker 2: are on the rise and will be the majority of
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  Speaker 2: the human beings. And if you look at places like China,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like when the population increases and.
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  Speaker 3: Certain certain moves are made, I mean to to economically.
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  Speaker 2: Benefit from that. I mean, the possibilities are we just watched.
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  Speaker 2: The possibility is so fucking massive. And what the powers
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  Speaker 2: that be really don't want is that Black American people,
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  Speaker 2: who have been able to just in this past hundred
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  Speaker 2: years man like dramatically change the landscape of culture globally.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they don't want us to connect, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. And that's where that's where I find
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  Speaker 2: my greatest criticisms with FBA is not FBA as an
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  Speaker 2: idea of foundationally black Americans, Like I believe whatever you
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  Speaker 2: want to call it, that Black American people are obviously
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  Speaker 2: their own culture.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: They are their own I mean, they have their own cuisine,
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  Speaker 2: they have their own dialects, they're basically their own language,
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  Speaker 2: their own literature, their own contributions to science.
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  Speaker 3: Technology, math are everything. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: But was it Malcolm X that said, uh, if a
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  Speaker 2: kitten gives birth in an oven, does it give birth
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  Speaker 2: to cookies?
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: Like with that, Malcolm X, a beanie seagull?
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  Speaker 3: That would be funny if I mixed up, Malcolm, if.
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  Speaker 4: You put pictures in the oven, not make them biscuits,
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  Speaker 4: biscuits biscuits funny?
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  Speaker 2: I do think I don't know bo both con.
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  Speaker 3: My big point, though, man, is that, like.
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  Speaker 2: I just think that, like the group online that is
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  Speaker 2: pushing an anti African narrative, it's just misguided and I
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  Speaker 2: feel like they're misguided by design though you know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, in the same way that the Africans online
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  Speaker 2: that are pushing an anti black American narrative are misguided.
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  Speaker 3: They're misguided by design.
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  Speaker 2: Like I've had these conversations in Africa many times when
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  Speaker 2: African people will ask me, they say black Americans. Why
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  Speaker 2: are they so aggressive? And you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: why are they so angry? And why can't they figure
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  Speaker 2: out how to rise in society? Like Africans are often
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  Speaker 2: colored with so many negative stereotypes of Black Americans because
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  Speaker 2: the media has painted Black Americans in yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: and intentionally derogatory light in order to keep them exploited,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, and in order to make
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  Speaker 2: the world feel like but I guess, yeah, my point
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  Speaker 2: being that it's just two different strokes of the same
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  Speaker 2: brush because at the same token, like, uh, the media
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  Speaker 2: has and continues to paint Africans as having no contribution
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  Speaker 2: to history, saying that the Pyramids are created by you know,
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  Speaker 2: aliens or goddamn motherfuckers look like Brett Farv, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like, just because they don't want to
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  Speaker 2: acknowledge the greatness of black people.
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  Speaker 3: And so you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I appeal to like both to both FBA and to
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  Speaker 2: African people of the continent to you know, recognize our
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  Speaker 2: our necessitated unity, Like we don't get free until we
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  Speaker 2: all get free.
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  Speaker 3: You know That's how I feel.
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